Bug#877697: debian-policy: discourage using all 4 digits numbers in Standards-Version
On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:22:48AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> 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?"
Doing that would be lead to the removal of four digits by maintainers
for all practical prupose. Nobody is going to add a lintian exception
for this. If four digits are fine, then lintian whould not warn against
them.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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