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Bug#877697: debian-policy: discourage using all 4 digits numbers in Standards-Version



On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 03:38:30PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> what are the practical negative effect of
> putting the 4th digit in the Standards-Version field ?

I can't really think of any, except consistency across packages, and
perhaps being a tad less confusing to see a 4th digit when you are
always used to see 3.

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