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Re: Let's consider using year based release identifiers [was: Re: getting rid of "testing"]




On 29/06/2019 17:27, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> Am 29.06.19 um 14:41 schrieb Jeremy Stanley:
>> On 2019-06-29 13:53:35 +0200 (+0200), Tomas Pospisek wrote:
>> [...]
>>> As others here I am starting to get confused by the release code
>>> names, as are my peers that are not that much into Debian. And
>>> sequential release numbers are devoid of any semantics except for
>>> their monotonically increasing character.
>> [...]
>>
>> And yet you *wouldn't* be confused when Debian 2019.7 is released in
>> 2021?
> 
> That's right, I don't think that'd confuse me. The reason it wouldn't
> confuse me, is that I expect releases to be updated eventually and that
> can happen at any time in the future - f.ex. in 2021.
> *t
> 

It will confuse me because in 2021 I will expect release 2021 .
Furthermore, will .7 stand for July ?

Jerome

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