Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages [and 1 more messages]

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Wed 11 Mar 2020 at 12:30PM GMT, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Felix Lechner writes ("Re: Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages [and 1 more messages]"):
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 4:58 AM Ian Jackson
>> <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> > It works today.  The only problem is the lintian warning.
>>
>> Doesn't policy stand in the way too?
> ...
>> Is it permitted now? Policy 3.2.1 states "hyphen (-) cannot be used in
>> native package versions."

I believe that the relevant sentence of Policy, added in policy.git
commit eee39aecef3a6a5f9927211b5c847e645e927cbd, was intended to be
informative, not normative.  It does not use one of the Policy normative
magic words, is not in the subsection in which it would be natural to
place such a restriction, and occurs in a "hey, don't forget that ..."
clause.

Thus the only Policy issue here could be the addition of an explicit
permission to use Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages.  As
discussion is ongoing in the context of Lintian, that seems premature,
however.

So I think we can close the clone of this bug against Policy for now.

-- 
Sean Whitton