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> Upgrading is going from one major version to the next. > Updating is increasing the minor version, including bug fixes and small patches. I dont agree with
by 2h 4y ago
> Upgrading is going from one major version to the next.
> Updating is increasing the minor version, including bug fixes and small patches.
I dont agree with this at all. You could swap the two words and still have a cogent paragraph. what reference do you have for these terms?
- qup 4y agoSomebody let the apt maintainers know they've got it wrong
- 2h 4y agoRight because the English language is maintained by the apt maintainers
- qup 4y agoI was agreeing with your sentiment. Upgrade doesn't mean what the guy thinks it should, per apt, one of the most widely-used package managers on the planet. That said, I do disagree with you now. The language used to describe...uhh..."increasing" minor vs major versions is exactly the kind of thing package-manager-maintainers would get to decide on. What do you think, we're going to have a congress of linguists to determine command line flag names?
- 2h 4y agothe point is, those two words are essentially fungible. regardless of who says they mean what, they are not right, unless their definition is that they are basically synonymous.