Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>]

On 7/12/05, Andrea Mennucc <mennucc1@debian.org> wrote:
> Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> > On 20050708T181259-0400, Johan Kullstam wrote:
> >>What signal is meant by 3.1 versus 4.0?  Does your intended audience
> >>have any concept of the distinction?
> >
> > The usual distinction, when it is made, is that bumping the major number
> > indicates a disruptive upgrade (changing how things work, not just
> > adding new things).
> >
> 
> the change of gcc 3 to gcc 3 is disruptive (to c++ binaries)

4?
But not to users, which is what the version number is about.