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Re: remove `r0' from woody version number



On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:53:14PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:04:49PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > When potato was released, its version number was `2.2' (see
> > revision 1.1 of english/releases/info[1]).  Should woody follow
> > the same convention (this would also match the release
> > announcement[2])?
> 
> I considered that but ended up adding the revision number because that
> way the date will be correct even after new revisions are released.
> 
> If someone will take responsibility for always updating the release
> date then we could consider dropping the r0. Of course, most users
> don't care about the revisions. When people talk about the last
> release of Debian they generally are referring to r0.

I'll maintain this information.  In light of Joey's suggestion,
I'd also suggest permanently removing the revision from the main
page by using <current_release_short>.  OK?

Matt

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