Re: Debian versioning scheme (r1 vs .1)

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

David Sanders <davidsanders@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 13:05, Morten Brix Pedersen wrote:
>> I am wondering why updates to the Debian GNU/Linux distribution uses the
>> much alternative versioning syntax, such as 2.2r7, 3.0r1 etc.
 
>> In my opinion, 3.0.1 is a much clearer and more commonly used syntax.
 
> I agree.  3.0r1 sounds too much like WinXP SP1.
[...]

Cool - the version numbers express exactly what 3.0r1 is, lets stay
with this scheme. ;-)

3.0r1 is 3.0 with bugfixes, ie. 3.0SP1.
              cu andreas