On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 04:16:43PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
> ChangZhuo Chen wrote:
> Preferably with a "Harvard comma" before the "and".
>
> The Debian version of LXQt appears to be "13". How does that relate
> to the "LXQt 0.11" released last September?
LXQt is just a meta package, not a upstream package, so its version does
not related to upstream. Most of the lxqt-* packages now are upstream
version 0.11.1 [0].
But I think unversion is also okay to avoid confusion.
[0] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-lxqt-devel%40lists.alioth.debian.org
> Meanwhile, does LXDE not use numbered releases? The versioning on the
> metapackages just calls it "9", whereas wiki.lxde.org says the latest
> version is "0.99.2".
>
> Also, isn't "KDE" officially the name of the development project
> rather than the desktop environment (which is "Plasma")?
I am not familiar with KDE, but someone else mentioned this problem in
debian-release list [1], so I guess "KDE Plasma 5.8" is preferable.
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2017/06/msg00328.html
> And finally, what sort of ordering is this? Is there any reason not
> to list them alphabetically?
>
> So maybe it should be something like:
>
> GNOME 3.22, KDE Plasma 5.8, LXDE, LXQt, MATE 1.16, and Xfce 4.12.
>
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