[Fedora-trans-ar] Glossary - release / version

Munzir Taha munzirtaha at newhorizons.com.sa
Tue Nov 16 17:11:20 UTC 2004


On Yau al-Thulatha 03 Shawwal 1425 15:10, Sherif Abdelgawad wrote:
> Mohammed,
>       Let us first make sure we understand what is the Release and what is
> the Version

> Version: This is main number which keep tracks of new package. This is the
> main
>               one, like in our example of bash RPM it is 2.05b
>
> Release:  This is the minor number, due to little changes, or patches, bug
> fixes ..etc.
>                In our example it is 29.0.3

Good example. This proves that we need two distinct words then.

> Taking this I would say Version is اصدار and Release is نسخة

Sherif may I suggest that we exchange it so that
Version نسخة
Release إصدار

It conforms better with the dictionaries I have at hand.

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