Subject: my $0.02 about release numbers.

From: [email-masked] (Emilio Lopes)
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 96 16:44 EST

Hi all,

Follows my opinion about the subject:

we should have a debian-1.1 dir, which won't ever change. While 1.2 is
not released, new packages go to pre-release-1.2 and bugfixes go to
bug-fixes-1.1.

When 1.2 get release there will be a debian-1.2 dir and also an
update-1.2 dir which should contain links to all packages that have
changed since 1.1.

With this scheme, a major and a minor version numbers seems to be
enough.

Emilio.

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From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:44:03 -0500 (CDT)

> Follows my opinion about the subject:

That's exactly what we plan to do.

Guy

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From: Bill Mitchell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:30:54 -0700 (PDT)

>With this scheme, a major and a minor version numbers seems to be

pre-release 1.2 should be codenamed and accessed by a pre-release-1.2
symlink to simplify the massive mirror copying issue when it's renamed
to debian-1.2 (or debian-2.0, or whatever we release it as).  Then,
when we create another codenamed directory and point a pre-release-1.3
symlink at that, I think we end up with the currently proposed scheme.
That being the case, it makes sense to structure the debian-1.1 access
arrangement so that it also follows that scheme.