Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 08:55:00AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> : George Bonser wrote:
> : > No, LSB would not dictate Debian's version but Debian could say that
> : > Debian-2.0 is LSB-1.2 compliant and someone looking at Red Hat 5.2 might
> : > see that it, too, is LSB-1.2 compliant and get the idea that both are
> : > roughly equal.
> :
> : Someone might today, see that both debian and redhat contain kernel 2.0 and
> : draw the conclusion they are both about equally up-to-date. Both
> : distributions mentinn which kernel they contain in press releases and ads
> : and so on. The fact that some people don't make this connection doesn't make
> : me optimistic about them being less confused when a third version number is
> : added to the mix.
>
> Has it actually been determined that the LSB will provide version
> numbers to be used in such a context? If not, then this whole argument
> is silly.
>
> Even then it's a bit silly - let's imagine that a new Linux distribution
> arrived on the scene. They're either going to start versioning with a
> number between zero and one, or pull a fast one and jack up their
> version number?!
good point...and who even says version numbers have to work in that way
anyway?
Many individual programs have versions like "19980420" ...or what
if I want to start with 100 and count down ;) or increase it by powers of 3?
(yes these are even more silly...but still possible)
-Steve
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