Re: Proposal: Debian release numbers
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 09:46, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Gustavo Franco <stratus@legolas.alternex.com.br> writes:
>
> > > Since Linux 2.4 was included in woody (despite claims by the popular press
> > > to the contrary), I'd say that is definitely not a major change.
> >
> > With gcc 3.2, KDE 3.1, GNOME 2, Linux 2.4 kernel(by default), and
> > XFree86 4.3(maybe?) we can't disagree that sarge is a major upgrade,
> > calling 4 or 4.0.Or not?
>
> I think the major version need change when Debian things (like Debconf
> in many packages from potato -> woody, for example) and Debian
> Installer (woody -> sarge) but not because GNOME 2 or others
> softwares.
IMHO, it makes sense and can be adopted as default policy to release numbers.
bye,
--
Gustavo Franco <stratus@acm.org>
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