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Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Mon Nov 7 16:28:46 UTC 2011


On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 10:51:34AM -0500, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:
> On 11-11-07 06:15 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> > In fact, code names shouldn't really be displayed to users at all after
> > final release, only version numbers.  See for example (old page but
> > never superseded AFAIK):
> > 
> >   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CodeNamesToVersionNumbers
> 
> Including the codename doesn't seem all that harmful, since it helps
> remind people which version is linked to which codename.

Perhaps, although I question whether the bulk of the audience for
apps.ubuntu.com would have been familiar with the code names in the
first place.

> So would it be appropriate if I file bugs against packages/places where
> only the codename is present and not the version number? Any objections?

That works for me.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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