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Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?



On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:10:41AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> [Andrea Mennucc]
> > me, I do my part of the work in Debian
> > 
> > and nobody ever contacted me regarding the choice of the number
> 
> What that...?  Why on earth would you think you should be contacted
> before this sort of decision is made?

Is there any formal policy as to how and when these release issues are
decided? (regarding codename or release version numbers)? I found this
email snippet[1] on -release (which seems the logical 'where')

"Debian is not a democracy. Debian is a volounteer organisation. The
essential difference is: in a democracy, everybody can directly
influence the decision. In Debian, the person who does something can
tell how he does it (in most cases - and within the limit of the Social
Contract, the DFSG and similar documents). ajt is release manager, he
does the release, so he decides how he calls it." -vbi

that would suggest that its the RM who has decided such issues
in the past unilaterilly.
cheers,
-Kev
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2004/01/msg00029.html
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