Hi, We have carried a major.minor scheme as a release numbering scheme since the Early Days, but it has lost relevance basically since Sarge (3.1 - But by the time it was finally released, some discussion was made whether Sarge should be 4.0 as the difference from Woody was already too large, to which the release team IIRC answered "it would be right but it's too late"). Since Etch released (2007), we have always used x.0.
There was the suggestion of using 4.5 for Etch and a Half, but it was not implemented, even though Etch and a Half was eventually released [1]. And I might be living under a rock, but I never heard about Lenny and a Half. 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. So, 6.0 is already decided for Squeeze. However, what do you think about dropping it afterwards? Wheezy can be just Debian 7 (yay, just like Windows! Oh, please forget that), with 7.1, 7.2, etc. as its point releases. [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/etchnhalf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100914172525.gg26...@gwolf.org
