Re: Bug#17621: [PROPOSED]: About versions based on dates
Hi
>>"Marco" == Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> writes:
Marco> On Oct 30, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> wrote:
>> To prevent having to use epochs for every new upstream version, the
>> version number should be changed to the following format in such
>> cases: `1996-05-01', `1996-12-24'. It is up to the maintainer whether
Marco> What about 960501? It's shorter.
Marco> (This format has NO Y2K problems.)
Really? When is 010501? Future? long Past? What do you think
the Y2k problem means? If you mean that it may not have problems for
Debian until nearly a centuryt from now, since we are not likely tp
pickup snapshots from esarly this century, I say you are suffering
from the same myopia that lead to the y2k problem. What is I want to
mention a snapshot of a book from 1926? with another snapshot from
1933? Like a diary? Or something? Is typing 2 characters going to be
an issue once again, despite all the hype and uproar from Y2K issue?
manoj
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