Hi, On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 07:05:26PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include <hallo.h> > * Michael Stone [Tue, Jan 07 2003, 10:09:00AM]: > > > >that we often release with outdated software. Numbers and names are for > > >marketing people. They should go along with markable changes. Internal > > >improvements are not often not interessting enough for "end-users". > > > > You're clinging to the idea that the distinction between major and minor > > numbers mean something in debian releases. Post-decision > > rationalizations aside, *they do not*. > > They are not yet, but that was a weird proposal about how they can > get some meaning besides of distinguishing the releases. Exactly. If we'd got rid of the minor number, the flexibility to implement such a proposal would have been gone. So removing the minor number takes a potentially useful thing away, and I still haven't seen anything that it gives back, other than giving less 'confusion', because a very useful concept (the 'r'-revisions) are not well understood enough by certain users. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | emile@e-advies.info tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 | http://www.e-advies.info
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