Bug#798714: debian-policy: Please explicitly recommend punctuation between the year, month and day components of date based version numbers

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>, 2015-09-11, 22:52:
> To demonstrate my point, please sort the following version numbers in 
> your head:
>
> * 20110111.0
> * 20101111.1
> * 20111111.2
> * 9.20111211
> * 9.20111121

These are unreadable...

> And now compare the same dates, but written with punctuation:
>
> * 2011.01.11.0
> * 2010.11.11.1
> * 2011.11.11.2
> * 9.2011.12.11
> * 9.2011.11.21

...but these are even more unreadable.

My personal recommendation is to avoid date-based versions whenever it's 
possible. (Yes, debhelper, I'm looking angrily at you.)

--
Jakub Wilk