> > Somebody please explain to me what the hell a difference it makes if
> > we have a v in front of the version number?
>
> It isn't standard practice. I agree with Peter on this.
>
> Also, as I have asked before, please make sure that future releases sort
> in the correct order. It makes life much easier for those of us who
> make packages and the many users who install packages.
>
> The cycle of releases we have had were:
> 7.4beta[1-5]
> 7.4RC[12]
> 7.4
>
> These sort in reverse (ASCII) order to their real priority.
>
> So the series of Debian packages were numbered:
> 7.3.99.7.4beta[1-5]
> 7.3.99.7.4rc[12]
> 7.4
>
> I hope users who were tracking these understood the relationship between
> Marc's numbers and mine.
Agreed, I'd like to see the v dropped from everything as well. It's
not crucial, but I've stumbled over it numerous times. -sc
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Sean Chittenden
