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Re: Version number of Lenny

From: Gyorgy Abraham <hangcsapda(at)gmail.com>
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 04:16:22 EDT


Kelly Clowers írta:
> On 8/20/07, Masatran, R. Deepak <masatran@research.iiit.ac.in> wrote:

>> Why is it that Etch incremented the major version number (3.1 to 4.0), but
>> Lenny will increment only the minor version number (4.0 to 4.1)?

>
> Etch had a lot of major changes. Sarge had kernel 2.4 or 2.6, Etch
> had just 2.6. Sarge had Xfree86 (X11R6), Etch had Xorg (X11R7).
> Sarge had GCC 3.x while Etch uses 4.x. Etch has D-bus 1.0.x,
> Sarge had 0.23 or some such. Oh, and Etch has the new installer.
>
> Anyway, the changes between Etch and Lenny will not be nearly
> as large as the changes between Sarge and Etch. Lenny will still
> have GCC 4.x, Xorg 7.x, kernel 2.6.x, etc (minor version updates).
>
>
> Cheers,
> Kelly
>
>

And maybe amd64 support is important.

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