Re: When to upgrade?

["brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca>]

>Maybe I'm being intentionally dumb (my normal state of mind) but what 
>consists the difference between 'version' and 'release' change ?
>Is version chance like, gcc 2.5.8 to 2.6.3  and then release change 
>only consists some debian stuff what has changed ?

The organization of the Debian package names looks (as I understand
it) like this:

    packagename-version-release.deb

packagename:    name of the package
version:        source changes, new features, bug fixes, etc.
release:        debian package changes, setup script & other control files


Thus, "sudo-1.3.1pl4-1.deb" is...

package:    sudo
version:    1.3.1 (patch-level 4)
release:    1

                                        Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@bnr.ca )

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