On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, Mark Constable wrote: > Is it necessary to have future versions of Debian at all ? Now that the major > upgrade from a.out to ELF is nearly complete, why does there have to be a > v1.2, > v1.3 or v2.0 series of Debian distributions ? Could there not be just "the one > true heirarchy" of well though out package areas then a future snapshot of the > dir tree at any point in time is legit ?
We've already discussed this on the list. See the archive for the grist. In a nutshell, CD manufacturers like versions. Guy

