On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 8:18 AM Severin Gehwolf <sgehw...@redhat.com> wrote: > Thus, the new upper bound for update > version number is 2^16-1 => 65535 which should be sufficient. I don't > think OpenJDK 8u will live that long ;-)
Everyone expected 256 to be sufficient for update release numbering, before the gaps in the numbering scheme were introduced! I don't know how we ended up with 2 mod 10.