Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> (2014-10-28): > As long as it's not out of NEW, we can still change our minds. Still noise and/or work for ftpmasters who are already quite busy. > The main argument in favour of "x.0" versioning was the possibility (see > #682656) to co-install versions across multiple releases. Dropping the > major version number from the package name would defeat this; were you > arguing to move from "x.0" to "x" or dropping the versioning altogether? The former (of course). > I'm in favour of the status-quo as oldstable and stable have "x.0" > already and moving to "x" would be confusing, IMHO. Because having jessie versioned 8, netboot images versioned 8.0, and installation images versioned 8.0.0 is not confusing? Especially when the first point release happens, we get (rebuilt) netboot packages still at 8.0, installation images at 8.1.0… Mraw, KiBi.
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