Bug#1142295: debian-policy: Policy major digit should match the Debian release version
Bill Allombert <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:27:13 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy |
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| Message-ID | <alofoeBf33dDcAn9__45848.2731877425$1784291365$gmane$org@seventeen> |
On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 03:04:00PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > Standards-Version 4.7.4 was introduced during the development of Debian 14, but the version number doesn't reflect that. > > Meanwhile, debhelper-compat 14 was introduced during the same development cycle and it indeed matches the upcoming Debian release version. This is a pure coincidence, debhelper-compat 13 was introduced in debian 11. Your proposal would require all maintainers to update their control file even though there was no change to policy. 4.7.3, 4.7.4 and 4.7.4.1 are relatively minor update that affect a minority of packages. Cheers,