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Re: Proposal: Debian release numbers



On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:58:21PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > How about using whole number increments -- in ROMAN NVMERALS.
> > The next version would be Debian IV r1 (for 'release 1').
> > The first revision of it as a stable release would be Debian IV r2.
> 
> Actually, why not? This will (kinda) prevent direct comparisons with
> other Distros/OSs because it looks totally different. IV, 8.1, 2003. No
> real comparision possible, I'd say. And it would make Debian look really
> special (which I think is a positive thing).

As a computer scientist I cannot support the use of any numbering system
which by its very nature prevents zero-indexing!  ;^)

noah

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