Subject: Re: iproute2 DDMMYY versioning - why?

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:51:36 -0700

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:05:50 +0300
Or Gerlitz <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Stephen,
> 
> Taking into account that iproute releases are aligned with the kernel
> ones -- is there any real reason for the confusing DDMMYY double
> versioning?
> 
> I see that even the git tags go after the kernel releases..
> 
> Or.
> 

It is only an historical leftover, because 15 yrs ago that is how Alexy did it