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by AbacusAvenger 2196 days ago
> The KDE desktop environment has been updated to version 5.18.4.1.19.12.3.

Is that... actually the version number? I thought KDE just used a 3-part version number (major.minor.maintenance or something).
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andimm 2196 days ago
I am no expert at all but maybe the desktop environment is a combination of KDE Plasma 5.18.4 and KDE Applications 19.12

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Software_Compilation

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Johnnynator 2196 days ago
KDE releases numbers can be 4 part. The first 3 are for scheduled releases and the 4th one is for unscheduled one. E.h. 5.18.4 was released without having the version number in the source code updated, so 5.18.4.1 was released right after with that fixed. Otherwise FreeBSD has both the Plasma and the Application version number in their meta package. 5.18.4.1 is Plasma and 19.12.3 are applications.
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cbhl 2196 days ago
The last three parts are probably a date in yy.m.d format.

Package names only get longer as you add more layers of maintainers. (For example, package-XubuntuY or package+YYYYmmdd-n was common on Ubuntu, who needed their versions to fit "between" given Debian versions.)

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