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I disagree with your interpretation, that it seems complicated
For Ubuntu it is also pretty obvious that the versioning is YEAR.MONTH and that there's always a .04 and .10 and it should be clear that there aren't two major upgrades per year.
I... I had not realized this. The year.month that is