Re: on versions, revisions, and release dates

[Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>]

In message <m0tyr71-0002YGC@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>, Ian Jackson writes:
>Bruce Perens writes ("on versions, revisions, and release dates"):
>> Instead, each package should contain a "Release-Date: " field, which would
>Note also that if we change this we have to change the semantics of
>all the dependency fields that mention specific revisions, and it's
>also hard for us to issue a an emergency bugfix to an older and very
>different version without messing up the ordering.

While I sympathize with Bruce's suggestion, I think Ian has a pair of
compelling points.

Mike.
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