Worse, my pretest versions of libtool are based on *different* CVS
snapshots. So they differ not only in REL, but also in VER, from the
packages on the cygwin mirrors.
Umm, Chuck, the above suggestion was intended only for different
pre-releases of the package with the *same* VER number. If you have
different VER numbers, you already have a way of distinguishing various
pre-releases, and no need to do anything extra to that end.
FWIW, I think the practice of naming the initial releases -1 is related to
the absense of release notes for packages in setup. If there were a way
to access the release notes (or the announcement, which should amount to
the same thing), it wouldn't matter what the release number is. This is
more than just a "so patch setup" issue, since there is no connection
currently between upset/setup and the announcements.