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From: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>
To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> > > *PLEASE*PLEASE*PLEASE* listen to Rod.  The kernels after 2.2.5-RELEASE
> > > should be called 2.2.5-STABLE.
> > 
> > Or we could always call it 2.2.x-STABLE, to indicate that it is the most
> > recent of the 2.2 branch (which is therefore, the 2.2.x branch...)  
> 
> Won't do you any good, you wont know if your post 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.5,
> kinda defeats the purpose of REVISION :-(.

True, but it fixes the origional problem of user CONFUSION...  (2.2 vs
2.2.0 problem...)  You'd have to tack a revision on there somewhere to fix
the problem of "exactly what revision IS this system anyway?"

FreeBSD 2.2.x-STABLE (rrrrr)

r = some revision identification scheme

Later......						<Doug>