On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote: : George Bonser wrote: : > No, LSB would not dictate Debian's version but Debian could say that : > Debian-2.0 is LSB-1.2 compliant and someone looking at Red Hat 5.2 might : > see that it, too, is LSB-1.2 compliant and get the idea that both are : > roughly equal. : : Someone might today, see that both debian and redhat contain kernel 2.0 and : draw the conclusion they are both about equally up-to-date. Both : distributions mentinn which kernel they contain in press releases and ads : and so on. The fact that some people don't make this connection doesn't make : me optimistic about them being less confused when a third version number is : added to the mix.
Has it actually been determined that the LSB will provide version numbers to be used in such a context? If not, then this whole argument is silly. Even then it's a bit silly - let's imagine that a new Linux distribution arrived on the scene. They're either going to start versioning with a number between zero and one, or pull a fast one and jack up their version number?! -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
