Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

Gunnar Wolf <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.curiosa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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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