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authorLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2011-12-19 21:21:29 +0200
committerLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2012-05-24 18:24:44 +0300
commitdf85e156716a4eecb7e2978691f03f729444d998 (patch)
tree3d783d04d66acf8d60c4fb2c5d5592ce34b52eed
parentxz: Fix a typo in a comment. (diff)
downloadxz-df85e156716a4eecb7e2978691f03f729444d998.tar.xz
Docs: Explain the stable releases better in README.
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@@ -131,8 +131,12 @@ XZ Utils
- Z is the revision. This has different meaning for stable and
unstable releases:
+
* Stable: Z is incremented when bugs get fixed without adding
- any new features.
+ any new features. This is intended to be convenient for
+ downstream distributors that want bug fixes but don't want
+ any new features to minimize the risk of introducing new bugs.
+
* Unstable: Z is just a counter. API or ABI of features added
in earlier unstable releases having the same X.Y may break.