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Bug#891216: Requre d-devel consultation for epoch bump [and 2 more messages]



Hello,

On Fri, May 25 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#891216: Requre d-devel consultation for
>epoch bump [and 2 more messages]"):
>> On Fri, May 25 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> > When we get to tidying this up, the epoch-ignoring new file name
>> > uniqueness section could probably do with a cross-reference.
>>
>> Do you mean 3.2.2?
>
> I think I do.  "Uniqueness of version numbers".

ISTM that your new section should refer to 3.2.2, because the
requirements of 3.2.2 are one reason to avoid epochs.  In the other
direction, however, I can't see right now what sort of cross reference
you are thinking should be inserted in 3.2.2.  A patch would be welcome.

This is all informative, so it doesn't needed to be seconded, so let's
not modify the patch to be seconded but instead make further commits --
my bug891216-spwhitton branch in the Policy repo has your patch applied.

>> I'm mildly distressed that we have two patches that I am hoping to
>> get into the next release of Policy that add subsubsubsections
>> (i.e. the section number contains three periods) but I think it's the
>> right thing to do in both cases.
>
> I did various git-grep to find out what rst syntax I should use for my
> subsubsection and discovered that there were quite a few already, all
> using ^^^^^.
>
> I don't think there is anything wrong with subsubsections.  They ease
> all of reading, navigation, cross-referencing, and referencing from
> elsewhere.

I assume you mean 'subsubsubsection(s)' throughout.

I was being misled by the fact that subsubsubsections are elided from
the table of contents generated by Sphinx into thinking that both the
patches introduced a subsubsubsection for the first time.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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