Concisely stated
Ok, here is my point as sweetly as I can put it.
I noted that Debian should have a policy that determines what is a major
and what is a minor release. AS AN ASIDE I noted that the wide variance of
versioning between distributions can create confusion in the minds of
shoppers for a Linux distribution. I then backpedaled a bit when I
realized that the LSB should, in the future, give shoppers a means to
compare the different distributions based on their LSB compliance.
Someone mentioned that there was no assurance that the LSB would have
versions but if you think about it for 30 seconds or so, it will have to
because kernel and libc versions will change. In other words, as libc and
the kernel evolve, so will LSB in that LSB 1.2 will probably mandate
higher version numbers of these things than LSB 1.1
A shopper for Linux can see that Red Hat 5.x and Debian 2.x are both LSB
1.x compliant and see that they are, as far as applicatons that are
designed to be LSB compliant, identical. The different distributions then
compete on the basis of their technical merit, ease of use, etc.
I ment to state that the LSB can provide a consistant means of comparison
shopping as far as application compatability is concerned where the
distribution versions differ.
Getting back to the original main point, if all the vendors know that
slink will be 3.0, they can tout the current slink as 3.0-alpha. If
anything is in hamm-updates, it can be touted as pre-2.1. Once hamm
updates is swept into stable it becomes 2.1 release.
I thought it was logical, easy to understand, intuitive, and all that
stuff. Too many people have been reading the responses to what I said
rather than what I said. Part of it is likely my fault in failing to
properly communicate. I do not think I propose anything drastic or any
great change to Debian. I think it is only improvement and refinement.
George Bonser
Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today?
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