Generally Red Hat update full numbers when binary compatibility breaks the new glibc and threads have broken alot of stuff hence i believe that they have done the correct thing by jumping numbers. Dennis On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:44, Marie-Thérèse Lorentzen wrote: > I'm no expert in the area, however, my understanding of upgrades is that the > general convention for at hop from on number to another would be a 'major' > change in a kernal/a new look/ or something that separates it from the > previous number/numners. If the hop is several numbers, then this would > indicate an even greater change. A "dot" change/update/upgrade is generally > for less significant changes. And as for the use of upgrade/update please > excuse my ignorance - I do actually have a hard time knowing when something > is an 'update' (up2date) and when something is an upgrade. I'm guessing that > the latter involves greater changes. Maybe even from one number to another. > > I'm personally thinking that if the next version is jumping from 8.0 to 9.0, > then there are perhaps some major changes? Having said that, I can't help > but wonder what major changes have been made. > > If it's not an idication of a major change, well then if rules can be > broken, I suppose that conventions can also be broken. It makes things more > confusing, but in this particular case, it's not something I would worry too > much about. <snip> > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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