Re: Debian 7

[Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>]

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 07:19:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 04:56:00PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> > Wheezy. It's obvious, isn't it? It comes between Squeeze and Jessie.
> > </sarcasm>
> > 
> > Wheezy is a brand.
> [...]
> 
> No, it really isn't.  Everything on the front page of www.debian.org
> refers to 'Debian 7.0' (with 'wheezy' as a secondary identifier in
> one place).

Which causes confusion.  I had to look it up when someone mentioned "Debian
6.0" yesterday, and I haven't ran debootstrap just once or ten times...
The number seems to be never used outside the front page and few pieces
of docs no one reads.  I guess a good part of us doesn't know the numbers
either.

It's akin to knowing that 2000 < XP < Vista < 7 -- these do have underlying
real monotonic version numbers, too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Releases
yet no one uses them either.

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