On Tue Sep 14 12:25, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > We have carried a major.minor scheme as a release numbering scheme > since the Early Days, but it has lost relevance basically since Sarge > (3.1 - But by the time it was finally released, some discussion was > made whether Sarge should be 4.0 as the difference from Woody was > already too large, to which the release team IIRC answered "it would > be right but it's too late"). Since Etch released (2007), we have > always used x.0. > > There was the suggestion of using 4.5 for Etch and a Half, but it was > not implemented, even though Etch and a Half was eventually released > [1]. And I might be living under a rock, but I never heard about Lenny > and a Half. Perhaps (as is being discussed on IRC at the moment), we could use in 6.x.y the y for point releases and the x for things like 'and a half' release that add more functionality? Matt
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