Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0

[Stephen Leake]

Ludovic Brenta <address@hidden> writes:

> I am of the opinion that the next version of monotone should be 1.0 because of
> the netsync flag day.
>
> This would allow us, maintainers of monotone in Debian, to provide two
> versions of monotone in parallel: monotone (the latest) and monotone0 (0.44),
> or monotone1 and monotone.  This would allow people to have both versions
> installed at the same time, without a clash.

Makes sense; people dealing with more than one server will have
different flag days, and will need both clients until all transition.

> I think this would be desirable because Debian 5.0 "Lenny" contains version
> 0.40, runs on many servers including www.ada-france.org, and will remain in
> service for at least another two years.  Thus the transition period for the
> netsync change cannot be shorter than that.

Can't people install a newer version of monotone on the server? Is there
some reason to stick to a "pure" Debian 5.0 version?

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