Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 13:12:36 +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson <Paul.Hampson@anu.edu.au> said:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:57:25AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
>> I'm already seeing documentation referring to "Debian 3.2 (etch)".
>> Is this really what we want?
>> I remember some of us belatedly suggested sarge should be Debian 4.0,
>> though it was too late (May?) to accept that.
>> I suppose we should decide now if etch is going to be 3.2 or 4.0.
>> Given the ABI change with gcc-4.0 and the introduction of X.org, it
>> seems to me we have ample justification to introduce Debian 4.0.
> Would now be a good time to propose that we version Debian based on
> the version of gcc that gcc-defaults points at?
How about we take the version number of all the packages in Debian, and
use the average as the Debian version number?
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