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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] emacs: add notmuch-version.el.tmpl and create\r
+ notmuch-version.el from it\r
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
+\r
+>\r
+> This is more due to the template-to-file conversion simplicity than need\r
+> and I thought there is no harm having the copyright there. At least the\r
+> file is consistent with others in that sense.\r
+\r
+OK, I can live with it.\r
+\r
+>\r
+> All of these are of type string, and the documentation states whether \r
+> it is (at least close to) numeric or not within string. But there is\r
+> no tradition of what *-version should contain.\r
+\r
+I think depending on the contents of a string to be parseable in any\r
+particular way is probably a bad idea in any case, particularly in a\r
+lisp where you can just make the variable the appropriate type...\r
+\r
+d\r
+\r