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Re: Proposal: Debian release numbers



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On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 9:54 am, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:20:54AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > I therefore propose that we alter the scheme for release numbers as
> > follows.
> >
> > Debian stable releases will be identified by their code name and a single
> > release number, starting at the next whole number (4) and incrementing it
> > for each new stable release.  The next stable release would therefore be
> > "Debian 4 (sarge)", the release after "Debian 5 (etch)", and so on.
>

>
> I whole-heartedly agree with this!

So do I, with one attached question.

Should the Release name have an upper case first letter.  They are after all, 
"proper" nouns.  (I am new to Debian - having only come on board after Potato 
was released - so I may have missed discussion on the naming convention).

- -- 
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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