Re: ITS: homebank
Ming Hua <minghua@ubuntu.com> writes:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:16:01PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
>> 3. Standards-Version: 3.7.2.2
>> That should just be:
>> Standards-Version: 3.7.2
> May I ask what is the rationale for this? I know the fourth vesion
> number usually indicates small fixes, many of which just typos, but
> according to /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz
> there is real policy changes in 3.7.2.2:
> 3.7.2.2 Oct 2006
> * Maintainer scripts must not be world writeable (up from a
> should to a must) [6.1]
Yeah, I think that should have made this revision 3.7.3, since that looks
like a normative change to me, but it's probably not a major issue.
In general, using four numbers or three is a matter of personal preference
and either is specifically allowed in Debian Policy. The fourth revision
number is supposed to be only for non-normative changes, and hence the
argument is that it's not useful information for package control files.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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