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On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 20:49 +0200, Gábor Stefanik wrote:

> >> OK, I can cope.  But if you (i.e. your team) can influence them
> >> towards a sane numbering scheme, it will probably make packagers
> >> and/or release engineers happier in the distros...

> Perhaps formatting the number as "3.1.128.50" and "5.1.39.31" would be
> a saner idea.

It still wouldn't be monotonically increasing ... you could have
5.1.39.31 and then 5.1.17.168 since the API version doesn't necessarily
change all the time.

johannes