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Re: Proposal: Debian release numbers



On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 02:18, Joey Hess wrote:
> 1.1 was a major release due to ELF (NB: would have been 1.0)
>
> 1.2 was not as the distribution only grew and changed
> 1.3 likewise
>
> 2.0 was a major release due to glibc
>
> 2.1 was not as the distribution only grew and changed
> 2.2 likewise
>
> 3.0 was a major release due to an arbitrary decision of the release
> manager, but that's the first time that happened. I hope you're not trying
> to perpetuate that.

So 4.0 will be a major release because of GCC 3.2 and C++ recompilation along 
with KDE 3.1 and kernel 2.6?

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