Re: Show me the money Re: Donations to Debian
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Dave Cinege wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 16:12:59 -0400 (EDT), Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Dave Cinege wrote:
> >
> >> It's not about .1 R1, or Asub1, to the 2nd power of 4.
> >> It's about something that is frozen, actully staying frozen.
> >> If the disc says 1.3.1, I should be able crccheck the whole damn thing against
> the
> >> master 1.3.1 dist, and have it come up clean.
> >>
> >> Right NOW you can't even do that,
> >
> >Not true! 1.3.1 is a fixed object, available as an "Official" image. It
> >hasn't changed since its release, and, to the best of my knowledge, will
> >not ever change.
>
> Bruce Perens:
>
> 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
> Stallman requested that XDM display "Debian GNU/Linux" rather than just
> "Debian Linux". It's worthwhile to insert that change, but not
> worthwhile to make everyone think they need to upgrade their systems
> because of it. Thus, we will not bump the release number to 1.3.2 for minor
> changes.
So? What's the problem. Instead of calling the next release 1.3.2 it will
be called 1.3.1 R1. No less distinct, but in a form the retailers will,
hopefully, not baulk at.
Your complaints seem to be based on a misunderstanding.
Luck,
Dwarf
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