Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)
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On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
> > Does bash 2.01 solve the problem? We do update 'stable' - we're
> > currently debating that strategy on the debian-private (developers only)
> > mailing list right now. If bash 2.0 is sufficiently broken, then that might
> > merit putting 2.01 into 'stable'.
>
> I'm going to have to set this straight, since Jim alluded to a discussion
> on our private list.
>
> The next version of the system will be called "Debian 1.3.1 Revision 1".
> People who make long-term products based on Debian requested that
> we not change the version number of the system if we were only making a
> few bug fixes. For example, X windows was rebuilt because Richard
Hang on, aren't I already running Debian 1.3 Revision 1 (or in other words
Debian 1.3.1)?
Anand.
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