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Re: note on "2.4 is deprecated"



On 13 Apr 2006, Bastian Blank wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 10:28:56AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> That is stretching it. The third component of a version is
>> hardly a "major" revision.
>
> Why?

        Component in a version are major.minor.sub. Now, given that
 Linux 1.0 was ages ago, one could conced that the versioning is
 Epoch.Major.Minor But claiming that 2.5.16 is majorly different from
 2.5.15 when it comews to support is a facile argument that most
 people are not gonna buy.

        manoj

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