Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-15 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:39:55 -0500
Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote:

 Simon Paillard dijo [Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:05:57PM +0200]:
  On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:25:25PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
   We have carried a major.minor scheme as a release numbering scheme
   since the Early Days,
  [..]
   So, for the past years we have had x.0.y with growing `y' for point
   releases, and skiping to (x+1).0.0. And the zero in the middle carries
   no meaning anymore.
  
  On a related note, if we want dots, sub versions to be meaninful, using
  them in the ISO name scheme as well may help.
  
  Many people downloaded Debian 505 recently.
  
  See #506489.
 
 ...At least they didn't get a 404 when trying to download Debian

...At least if they don't try to download Etch r4.

Dirk.


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Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Simon Paillard dijo [Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:05:57PM +0200]:
 On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:25:25PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
  We have carried a major.minor scheme as a release numbering scheme
  since the Early Days,
 [..]
  So, for the past years we have had x.0.y with growing `y' for point
  releases, and skiping to (x+1).0.0. And the zero in the middle carries
  no meaning anymore.
 
 On a related note, if we want dots, sub versions to be meaninful, using
 them in the ISO name scheme as well may help.
 
 Many people downloaded Debian 505 recently.
 
 See #506489.

...At least they didn't get a 404 when trying to download Debian


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