Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:55:09PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > Previously Philip Hands wrote:
> > > > Shouldn't that be 2.2 r1?
> > >
> > > The first revision will be 2.2r1
> >
> > That's interesting -- there was no 2.1r1. See
> > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/ChangeLog which begins with
> > 2.1r2.
>
> Exactly.
>
> This is the mistake I thought I'd try and make sure we didn't repeat,
> hence my mail.
>
> So just to make this clear, we're calling the releases as follows:
>
>
> 2.2 The thing that's definitely happening in a couple of weeks ;-)
>
> 2.2r1 The first revision, after the initial release
>
> 2.2r2 etc.
>
> Right?
Makes much more sense to me. First revision means you revised something.
So we can't call the first potato release revision 1 because we didn't
revisise 2.2 at all. IMO r1 should be what we call the next point release.
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