[Discussion on Debian version numbers and backporting] On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Scott wrote:
Perhaps, but it's also confusing to anyone coming to Debian from another Linux distro. Let's just hope they *properly* update the user agent string.. I say, that approach is fine, but why not show the right freakin version
Because the version is 1.04 not 1.07. Changing the version number to 1.07 when an app is really 1.04 with backported fixes would be bad bad. The version number can define features, defaults, bugs and behaviour.
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