Bug#1088443: debian-policy: Recommend Debian package version format when upstream has no releases

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

control: reassign -1 developers-reference

Hello,

On Sun 01 Dec 2024 at 09:44pm -08, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> This would not constitute any sort of rejection for which maintainers of
>> packages would need to be concerned.  It does not mean anyone's
>> practices should change.
>>
>> It does not mean that there is no policy (lowercase 'p') for these
>> version strings in Debian.
>
> What I am trying to express here is that I filed this for Policy
> inclusion specifically due to the normative status, so I can write for
> example a Lintian check for it.

devref and Policy are both normative, just about different things, and
in different ways.

You can already go ahead and write a Lintian check for it.  It doesn't
need to be in devref or Policy or anywhere else.

> My intent here was to suggest specifically that the version of form
> 0.0~git20130606.b00ec39-1 would be elevated as the Policy recommended
> form, as it makes sense and is already most popular.

You haven't made the case for this being in Policy as opposed to devref.

-- 
Sean Whitton