Bug#1135785: Suggest starting date-based version numbers with

Holger Levsen <[email protected]> Wed, 6 May 2026 10:30:54 +0000

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On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 11:02:53AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 0~date was already proposed 16 years ago by Russ in
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=186102#36>.
> then Russ cloned the bug as #589478 and reassigned it to devref but 
> nothing come of it, it is still open.
> 
> Maybe policy should suggest 0~date to avoid confusion.

or maybe someone just proposes a patch for dev-ref?! :)


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