littered version numbers (was: Re: Trying ARK feedback)

Harlan writes:
> >   for pkg in rsync--2.4.6 shtool--1.5.1 m4--1.4 ; do
> 
> I know this will be changing but in general I'd like to
> see a change in this sort of scripting.
> 
> ... Littering verison numbers in scripts like this just
> seems to me to be one more thing that needs to be
> remembered and fixed.

Agree completely.  It's what we used to call bugs^H^H^H^H,
um, "infelicities"...  The cited one is dead, and I'm happy
for us to go after any others.  (M-x tags-search didn't find
any more rsync--2.4.6's in my source tree.)

(This kind of keeping-each-other-honest is a good example of
why collaborative sysadmin will produce a better result than
the other kind.)

Will