Hello, On Wed, Oct 04 2017, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > I include it because it makes it unambiguous which version of policy > the team referred to when preparing the package. Micro policy > releases are not supposed to change the normative stuff but sometimes > they clarify the text of normative sections and that context can be > useful for understanding whether a later clarification was taken into > account in the packaging. > > My feeling is that this is fine and that those comments on IRC/MLs are > misguided. But I could easily be persuaded otherwise. This seems like a reasonable use of all four digits. I would like to reassign this to Lintian, which could say "did you really mean to use all four?" -- Sean Whitton
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