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Re: version numbers



> On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 01:31:52AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Another possibility is the following.  Increase the epoch at this
> > point to 1 (so you would have version 1:1.1), but from now on use a
> > triple version number, thus: this release will be 1:1.1.0 or 1:1.1,
> > the next minor upgrade will be 1:1.1.1 (and *not* 1:1.11), the next
> > major release will be 1:1.2.0 and so forth.
> Exactly what I meant; thank you.
> 	-=- James Mastros

Apologies -- I've been seeing so many emails about this question that
I probably saw yours and later it finally clicked that this was the
right thing to do without realising that I'd seen it before.

   Julian

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