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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped
From:       Thibaut Paumard <thibaut () debian ! org>
Date:       2018-02-15 12:19:50
Message-ID: 6e2441e5-b1aa-f2f6-4630-fb7ca72df39d () debian ! org
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(Please follow-up to debian-curiosa)

Le 15/02/2018 à 11:41, Simon McVittie a écrit  :
> 
> We don't have to look far to find a weird versioning scheme that can't
> be represented without epochs: our largest competitor in the field of
> general-purpose operating systems has such a versioning scheme. Imagine
> we had a package that followed the same versioning scheme as Windows (I
> could imagine a parallel universe in which Wine used the version number
> of the version of Windows that it claims to emulate). If we packaged
> that, using the "marketing version" wherever it's numeric or making up
> something reasonable wherever it isn't, we might have had a versioning
> scheme like this:

Well, as it happens, all the Windows versions also have a number that 
sorts properly, but does not always match the commercial number:


> 
> 3.1
> 3.11
> 95

4.00

> 98

4.10

> 2000

NT 5.0 (which we could have translated as 5.0+NT, for instance)

> 1:5.1+XP         # or 2001+XP or something

NT 5.1 (5.1+NT)

> 1:5.2+Vista      # or 2006+Vista or something

NT 6.0

> 1:7

Funnily, this is NT 6.1!

> 1:8

NT 6.2

> 1:8.1

NT 6.3

> 1:10

NT 10.0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions

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