Nigel Jones wrote:
On 10/07/05, Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:Are release numbers really needed? Why not do away with them altogether?you mean, just stick with code names? That wouldn't exactly work, Debian's apt/dpkg basicly relies on release numbers, how else can it easily and quickly realize that apache2-2.0.40 is older than apache2-2.0.50?
I was obviously referring to the numbers assigned to releases of the operating system, not to releases of individual packages.
-- Thomas Hood