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Re: Release-numbering change proposal

Bruce Perens <bruce@debian.org> writes:

> The contents of Debian-1.3.1 will remain constant.
> A directory Debian-1.3.1-updates will be created, and will contain all
> files that are updates to 1.3.1 . The directory Debian-1.3.1_revision_1
> will be created and populated with symbolic links pointing back into
> Debian-1.3.1 and Debian-1.3.1-updates, and "stable" will point at that.
> With the 2.0 release we will go to using one decimal point rather than
> two, so you would have Debian-2.0_revision_1 .

How is this any different from installing the updates (or just some of
them) into Debian 1.3.1, calling it Debian 1.3.2, but NOT changing the
official CD?

Or even better - we produce official CDs at a predetermined,
well-publicized intervals, but we update the FTP site more often.
After buying a CD, you're expected to update to the latest one on the
FTP site?

> It's time for us to think seriously about marketing the release, not just
> pleasing the minority who can get it or update it via FTP.

Ah, another utopian.  Let me guess - "security holes and major bugs
should hardly ever happen"?

And you honestly think a minority of Debian users do not have the
ability to FTP?

> This definitely hit our CD
> manufacturers between 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 - once 1.3.1 was announced, they had
> a difficult time selling 1.3.0 CDs.

As I remember we made an explicit announcement NOT to press any 1.3
CDs because 1.3.1 was imminenent.  I don't know of any companies
selling 1.3 CDs, but that may be because they went bankrupt soon after
1.3.1 was released.


Guy


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