Re: Bug#798714: debian-policy: Please explicitly recommend punctuation between the year, month and day components of date based version numbers
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 10:17:44AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > 2. -policy documents best current *ADOPTED* practice.
>
> That's new to me. For me, Policy is how it _should_ or _must_ be, by
> steering things in the right directions.
Policy generally does this about things which are important for
interoperability between packages. I don't think it's the place for
this kind of cosmetic recommendation, in either direction.
The text we have today steers a good course: it warns against a couple
of practices that might inadvertently be adopted without realising the
implications (date formats that don't sort properly as versions, and the
interaction between hyphens as separators and the semantics of hyphens
in versions defined elsewhere in policy), but it simply says "possibly
with punctuation between the components" etc. without taking a
particular aesthetic stance. I think that's right.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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