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Re: Proposal: Debian release numbers



On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:35:13PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Here's a slightly facetious suggestion.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Heh.  Or maybe not.

Maybe not. Maybe for the same reason Pentium IV was transformed to
Pentium 4 after a survey revealed that for some Americans it did not
make sense that IV is 4, so it should have been Pentium IIII which is in
no way a roman number.

my 2ec

J

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