[Wine] Wine version confusion

[Jim Showalter]

I am using Wine 0.9.24, which is shown as the most recent version
on the WineHQ site at http://www.winehq.org/.

But I notice that some submissions in AppDB show the submitter as
using higher versions of Wine, such as an Ubuntu 6.06 user claiming
to use Wine 0.9.9.  And indeed, when submitting/editing entries in
AppDB, the built-in version choices have a whole range above 0.9.24
- from 0.9.3 to 0.9.9.

Someone in live-chat said he was running Wine 9.9 in Mandriva Linux.
I asked him to enter "wine --version" and he said that it returned:
"Wine 0.9.9".

Is this version mangling by some Linux distros, or what?

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