Re: Debian versioning scheme (r1 vs .1)
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:15:38PM -0500, martin f krafft wrote:
I think if Debian releases 4.0 after 3.0r6 or whatever,
We shouldn't release 4.0, we should release 4. And the next one should
be 5, and then 6. The minor number is absolutely meaningless and should
be abandoned. For other distributions it might have a meaning (e.g.,
redhat tends to support security only for the final minor number in the
last major series--but our minors are completely arbitrary and have no
such encoded meaning.)
then we will lose credibility
That's ridiculous. We should not cater to anyone foolish enough to think
a version number means anything.
Mike Stone
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