Re: Proposal: Debian release numbers
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:04:36AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> 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)
> > 2.0 was a major release due to glibc
> > 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?
Does that follow? The GCC 3.2 transition doesn't require everything to
be recompiled, probably not even the majority, nor does KDE and
certainly not the kernel...
Still, those things may be significant enough for other reasons.
I don't see any need to rush to catch up with Red Hat.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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