What do you think about the new Debian release cycle?

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“Only” 2 years between 4.0 Etch and 5.0 Lenny is unprecedented in Debian time scale. Version inflation? is it because SPARC-32 support is being dropped? otherwise the changes between 4.0 Etch and Lenny don’t seem bigger than say 3.0 Woody to 3.1 Sarge (3 years apart).

In a world where transparent development is normal, “major.minor” style version numbers are largely meaningless. Linus and the Ubuntu and Fedora people seem to think the same.

If you have been happy with Debian for your servers, don’t switch, just (apt-get) upgrade.

BTW, my brain hurts from looking at that meaningless piece of graph on Wikipedia.

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