Re: Bug#21969: debian-policy: needs clarification about Standards-Vers
sanvila@unex.es (Santiago Vila) wrote on 03.05.98 in <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980503164425.1958A-100000@cantor.unex.es>:
> On 2 May 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> > Packages only have to specify the first three digits of the
> > version number in the `Standards-Version' field of their source
> > packages.
>
> "only three" is "three".
>
> I fully agree with Martin in that "if 'at least 3' was intended, it would
> undoubtedly have been specified".
Well, it sure reads to me as if it _does_ specify "at least three".
If it meant "exactly three", I'd have expected to see "Packages have to
specify only the first three digits of the version number in the
`Standards-Version' field of their source packages."
MfG Kai
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