***BOGO*** Re: Debian release versioning

[lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:21:30PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> I'm not sure sure that we want to have a hole in our versioning scheme.
> Since "lenny+1/2" is just another stable update, let's just number it
> like a stable update. So we don't end up with users thinking "You
> released 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.5. Where is 5.4 ?"

Do VMware users complain about 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.5,
etc?  The .5 for them is a major update with some new features, but
still a free upgrade while the next .0 costs money.  The half update is
bigger than normal revisions, so a jump in version number seems
perfectly reasonable there.  Of course I don't see anything wrong with
the XrY style currently used either, although maybe some people find it
strange.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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