Re: release name, release date, release number

[Ronny Aasen <ronny@skolelinux.no>]

Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 06:52:52PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> On Sunday 05 October 2008 15:51, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> Currently, debian-edu-install in Debian lenny is at version 0.673 and sets
>> the Debian Edu release version + name to "3.0r1 terra" (which is blatantly
>> wrong), while 0.674~svn55149 in Debian Edu lenny-test uses the prelimanary
>> string "4.0r0 luna alpha1".
> 
> so, i was thinking about release numbers, why not follow the same
> conventions as with packages?
> 
>   debian lenny initial release will be 5.0r0
>   debian-edu's initial release 5.0r0+edu1 (presuming it contains
>         a few additional things not already in debian lenny)
> 
> when 5.0r1 is released, it's easy to release 5.0r1+edu1. it also easily
> allows debian-edu to make point releases, i.e. 5.0r0+edu3.
> 
> and of course, hopefully someday, it'll just be Debian. :)
> 
> live well,
>   vagrant
> 
> 

I really like this suggestion.

Ronny