Bug#953629: debian-policy: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi,

As a Lintian maintainer, I would like to express support for Ian's
effort to remove restrictions on Debian version strings.

Unlike Ian, however, I also believe all packages should be converted
to format 3.0. A package's 'nativeness' is then declared explicitly,
and does not have to be inferred from the version string.

Lintian still does the latter for installation packages (aka 'binary'
packages) because the expected changelog locations differ (and tags
are issued accordingly). In my view, nativeness should only matter for
source packages. The provenance of an installation package should not
matter.

I wrote this message because the Lintian bug that is blocked by this
one will be triaged in another way. Lintian supports Ian's effort to
the extent that it simplifies the parsing of version strings.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner