Matt Zimmerman said: > I do not think that version number milestones are important for a > release. I think that having a well-integrated, high-quality > distribution is important for a release, and this is not so easily > monitored.
Releasing with KDE 2.2, GNOME 1, and a default of GCC 2.95 would be just plain pathetic. So sometimes, version number milestones *are* important for a release. Admittedly, most of the time they are not such a big deal. I guess what really matters here is having versions which aren't ludicrously out of date. Specifically, if something was released upstream over a year ago, and Debian releases with an even *older* version (without good reason), that's not good at all. -- Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org> http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html