Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On 13 Apr 2006, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 10:28:56AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> That is stretching it. The third component of a version is > >> hardly a "major" revision. > > > > Why? > > Component in a version are major.minor.sub. Now, given that > Linux 1.0 was ages ago, one could conced that the versioning is > Epoch.Major.Minor
Upstream declared 2.6 a constant for the time being, so the third component remains the only one to make a version distinction. > But claiming that 2.5.16 is majorly different from > 2.5.15 when it comews to support is a facile argument that most > people are not gonna buy. We already saw that for 2.6.12 -> .13. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]