> >Well, it's up to the release manager (and possibly debian-devel, but >straw polls on mailing lists don't really count for very much), not even >remotely debian-user. :) Remember that every Debian release has a hell >of a lot of new stuff - potato was a year and a half after slink, apart >from anything else. Any bumping of the version number tends to be at >least in part a marketing thing (we don't have the "*.0 is randomly >unstable, *.1 is OK, *.2 is fairly stable" thing that people talk about >Red Hat having sometimes). >
OK... i wasn't suggesting that debian-user would make the decision, i was more inquiring as to what the policy was. 2.4 ---> woody then? something to think about.