silly overview in 23.10

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2023-10-24 at 17:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-10-24 at 17:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Tue, 2023-10-24 at 10:35 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 8:17 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 01:24, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Is that GNOME in general, or just GNOME3.
> > > > GNOME 3 is dead and gone. The current version is GNOME 45.
> > > Calling GNOME3 by any other name like GNOME 3+x doesn't make it any
> > > less GNOME3.
> > 
> > The package management's log file of a rolling release might help.
> > 
> > $ grep "upgraded gnome-session" /var/log/pacman.log | tail | head -2
> > [2021-04-08T09:48:34+0200] [ALPM] upgraded gnome-session (3.38.0+14+g87d92fec-1 -> 40beta+4+gd44888fb-1)
> > [2021-04-13T01:30:39+0200] [ALPM] upgraded gnome-session (40beta+4+gd44888fb-1 -> 40.0-1)
> > 
> > From 2021-04-08 to 2021-04-13 are 5 days.
> > From major version 3 to major version 40 are 37 major versions.
> > 
> > Either they release 37 major versions within 5 days and I missed all of
> > them or else they made the minor version the major version.
> 
> Correction: From 2020-12 to 2021-04 are 4 month.
> 
> $ grep "upgraded gnome-session (3" /var/log/pacman.log | tail -2
> [2020-12-28T09:05:42+0100] [ALPM] upgraded gnome-session (3.38.0-1 -> 3.38.0+14+g87d92fec-1)
> [2021-04-08T09:48:34+0200] [ALPM] upgraded gnome-session (3.38.0+14+g87d92fec-1 -> 40beta+4+gd44888fb-1)
> 
> Either they release 37 major versions within 4 month and I missed all of
> them or else they made the minor version the major version.

"minor version" or  "dot version" or whatever it's called