On 10/07/2013 6:25 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 12:43:33PM +0800, James Bromberger a écrit : >> I am proposing to remove the following deprecated Debian AMIs: >> >> * Debian Squeeze (base install AMI) *6.0.6*, 32 and 64 bit (PVM EBS >> Root). This is *superseded by 6.0.7* which we will keep available as >> the latest release from the 6.x. >> * Debian Wheezy *7.1* (base install AMI) 32 and 64 bit (PVM EBS Root). >> This is *superseded by 7.1a* with the ECC fix (as of today). > Hi James and everybody, > > this opens the question of our naming scheme: 7.1 is the version of a Debian > release, whereas 7.1a is not. Do you think that it is enough to assume that > Debian will never use such version numbers, or shall we use a version scheme > that makes it more explicit that it is the combination of a release number and > a build number ? >
Great question. In the heat of issuing 7.1a, I needed something that was distinctly different. Squeeze went with three digits, Wheezy seems to be going with two. I think an Alphabetic character is significantly different and possibly unlikely to be used... but perhaps we want to separate in future with a period/dot between major debian release, and AMI/cloud re-releases? However for an initial release, I think it it really like the Cloud image version numbers being identical to the Debian release number - so we only introduce an additional letter/number when we have to do a re-release. Again, appreciate agrees and disagree. (Silence is interpreted as an indication of agreement! ;) ) James -- /Mobile:/ +61 422 166 708, /Email:/ james_AT_rcpt.to
