Re: Debian versioning scheme (r1 vs .1)
David Sanders <davidsanders@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 13:05, Morten Brix Pedersen wrote:
>> I am wondering why updates to the Debian GNU/Linux distribution uses the
>> much alternative versioning syntax, such as 2.2r7, 3.0r1 etc.
>> In my opinion, 3.0.1 is a much clearer and more commonly used syntax.
> I agree. 3.0r1 sounds too much like WinXP SP1.
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Cool - the version numbers express exactly what 3.0r1 is, lets stay
with this scheme. ;-)
3.0r1 is 3.0 with bugfixes, ie. 3.0SP1.
cu andreas
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