This sort of bickering over what justifies a "minor" change as opposed to a "big" change is exactly why we should stop pretending that that there is a sensible way of distinguishing the two. Just use unique ascending integers to distinguish releases and be done with this archaic major.minor system. There is no proposal that will be able to give sane, explainable, and reproducible criteria for a major.minor system fordebian.
Mike Stone