Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:41:47 +0000
To: "~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org" <~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>
From: "Tyler G. Sherrard" <tyler@c705.be>
Reply-To: "Tyler G. Sherrard" <tyler@c705.be>
Subject: Re: [3.15] System change proposal: rename the Alpine 3.15 release to Alpine 15
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+1 for this


>
> Yup, I think the time is better spent on other things. Changing the
> versioning scheme tends to pull in a massive rat tail of other changes
> as well. E.g. with the GNOME versioning change (the version that was
> suppose to become 3.40 became 40.0) lots of things had to be fixed:
>
> -   appstream-glib didn't work with how the new versioning scheme worked
>     for alphas/betas and had to be patched
>
> -   Most infra related scripts had to be changed so they didn't expect
>     [1-3].x in the paths
>
> -   Maintainers had to be informed (and many didn't know about the change
>     so many packages were released with 3.40 anyway - I imagine many dock=
er
>     images would have the same thing happen to them).
>
> -   Distro maintainers & users had to be informed - many missed this too
>     and/or had to adjust their scripts as well to properly pull in the ne=
w
>     version.
>
>     I can understand how a simpler version scheme can seem nice at first
>     but IMHO it'd be a huge undertaking to make it happen only so we have=
 a
>     simpler version number that contains less useful information.
>
>     -1 from me.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Rasmus Thomsen
>