The name doesn't show up anywhere Also, there is too much focus on the least important of the two scenarios: wanting to increase the version number with no mea

The name doesn't show up anywhere Also, there is too much focus on the least important of the two scenarios: wanting to increase the version number with no meaningful changes. The actually important scenario is the opposite: when the major version SHOULD be upgraded but people don't want to give the impression that this is a "major release" (in the colloquial sense). This is why the name is irrelevant: this is a situation where you'd want to "keep the name the same", and we already see that not working. Perhaps you'd be happy with making the vanity portion I suggested a "name"? mojave.1.0.3? This is 100% equivalent to what I was already proposing (the vanity section is pure vanity and is meaningless in package resolution), but seems to also satisfy your concern that it would be confusing if it were a number. Does that satisfy your concerns? My concern is simple: unless he "name" shows up in config files, it will not have the power of the "major" version and will thus inevitably result in people not properly upgrading the major version when necessary.