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[Curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 14:11 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
...

> It's not really appropriate to refer to Ubuntu distribution series as,
> for example, "Karmic 9.10" or "Jaunty 9.04". Ubuntu itself doesn't refer
> to series that way, anywhere that I know of. Ideally, Launchpad should
> render a distribution series .displayname as its codename until release
> date, and its version number from release date onwards, because that
> matches what distribution vendors do officially. (It would also serve as
> a subtle visual hint as to which series shown in the page have been
> released and which have not.)

See https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-registry/+bug/400643
which we want fixed for 3.0

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