Re: [Tools-discuss] Idnits confused about draft version numbers in the datatracker

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

I’m sure Henrik will answer this, but the underlying problem appears to be that idnits is an amazing, organically grown piece of bash, awk, sed, wget, and spit holding all that together.  It is a strong candidate for a rewrite, and I’m not sure now how that will happen.

Grüße, Carsten

PS.:
Trivia question:  What is
UUOUUUUUUOOUUNUOUUUSUUUUUNUUUUUUUUIUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUOUUU
and why is there only one S in that line?

> On 2020-11-20, at 16:18, Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> I'm getting these warnings from idnits:
>   -- Unexpected draft version: The latest known version of 
>      draft-bonaventure-iccrg-schedulers is -00, but you're referring to -01.
> 
>   -- Unexpected draft version: The latest known version of 
>      draft-ietf-quic-datagram is -00, but you're referring to -01.
> 
> Oddly, the version numbers are coming from I-D.whatever references with no version numbers, so whatever is adding version numbers added these, but the -01 versions of these drafts do exist in the datatracker. 
> Best,
> Spencer
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