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by loeg 2959 days ago
One fun example of this is the so-called RPM "5" fork[0], which is basically dead and almost entirely unused[1].

The result is the main RPM everyone uses will probably stay at version 4.x forever.

[0]: http://rpm5.org/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpm_(software)#RPM_v5
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nkkollaw 2959 days ago
They could skip a version like PHP did. Among other reasons, since books and articles about PHP 6 had already been written long before PHP 5+1 came out, they went with 7.
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loeg 2959 days ago
Sure, they could. I don't think they've felt the need to. RPM tends to change slowly and conservatively.
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