Re: yet another patch
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> writes:
>
>> I'm not sure this check is worth including. I find even the aesthetical
>> impact vey low.
>
> Yeah, I don't think it would do anything beyond just annoy people; there's
> no actual problem here. It's just enforcing a coding style, which is a
> largely arbitrary choice. If we had an infrastructure for doing coding
> style tests (there are a few other bugs marked [aesthetic] in a similar
> situation), it could maybe be rolled into that.
>
I don't see the point of having Ubuntu-like version strings, especially if
we currently have *none* in the archive.
If you really don't like the first part of the check, fine; I could remove
it, but IMHO the second part should be included.
JFTR, currently none of the packages in unstable seem to be matching those
regexes.
Please reconsider it.
Cheers,
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