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Re: new draft release announcement



Il gio, 2002-05-02 alle 23:00, Manoj Srivastava ha scritto:
> >>"Federico" == Federico Di Gregorio <fog@initd.org> writes:
>  >> Hmm. Why don't we follow the common versioning scheme of
>  >> 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1.0. 3.1.1, etc? 
> 
>  Federico> this was discussed a long ago. the rN is a concession to
>  Federico> the CD distributors that don't want to print a large number
>  Federico> of CD with the fear of Debian releasing a 'new' (note
>  Federico> quoting) version. i don't agree but it was decided that
>  Federico> 3.0rN looks less scary than 3.0.N.
> 
> 	I remember that. Does the argument still hold water? Do CD
>  manufacturers care? I seem to recall people selling the rN versions
>  as well for potato.

sure. as i said i don't like that versioning scheme, but it worked until
now and keept everybody happy. why change it?

-- 
Federico Di Gregorio
Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact        fog@debian.org
INIT.D Developer                                           fog@initd.org
                   I came like Water, and like Wind I go. -- Omar Khayam

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