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Re:Chronologic Versioning: No more arbitrary version updates... by anonymfus on Thursday January 02, 2020 @12:36AM (#21933253)
> If backwards incompatible changes are introduced you MUST append a hyphen and the reserved label "break". For instance: 2006.04.03.12 > 2006.04.03.12-break.

So with this system if you want to know whether two versions are compatible you would need to check versions of all releases between them for not having that label...

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Re:Chronologic Versioning: No more arbitrary version updates... by NetOpWibby on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @12:22AM (#21977154)
It's the best I could come up with when drafting this. What would you like to see?
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