On 18 October 2013 15:27, Benjamin Drung <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fr, 2013-10-18 at 23:17 +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> > Hi Benjamin (2013.10.18_23:08:17_+0200)
> > > Yes! We just report the major version and therefore should not return
> > > any specific point release numbers (like .0).
> >
> > Well, the minor version used to not indicate a point release, but now it
> > does.
> >
> > Squeeze was Debian 6.0, with point releases called 6.0.x.
> > Wheezy is Debian 7.0, with point releases called 7.x.
>
> I expressed myself ambiguous. We should just report the "main" part of
> the version by stripping the point release number. So we should report
> 6.0 for squeeze, 7 for wheezy, and 8 for jessie.
>
> --
> Benjamin Drung
> Debian & Ubuntu Developer
>
>
That would be a lot less ambiguous.  Thanks! :)

- Tianon

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