Re: Bug#21969: debian-policy: needs clarification about Standards-Version

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> I don't think the wording does leave room for any interpretation. You are
> free to read it in native english or in english written by a german guy,
> you still get the same meaning: Out of w.x.y.z, the first three have to be
> coorect (w.x.y) while the fourth can be ignored.

Of course, stated this way it's ambiguous. [Who may ignore the fourth:
the person supplying, or the person interpreting the version number?]

However since it's a comment in a changelog rather than in the policy
manual, the program source (diffs) should be considered authorative on
what change was actually made.

-- 
Raul


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