Bug#1142295: debian-policy: Policy major digit should match the Debian release version

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On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 03:36:24PM +0300, Martin-=C3=89ric Racine wrote:
>> The problem is that the Debian Policy and debhelper are not alike. In
>> the Debian Policy case, major changes are added whenever, regardless of
>> a specific start of a Debian release cycle. For debhelper, incompatible
>> or breaking changes get accumulated in the next compat level and then
>> released, which makes it easy to sync with a Debian release cycle, and
>> by definition all those changes will be major.
>>
>> Using the Debian release number for the Debian Policy would mean that
>> the first component would no longer imply major changes in the Policy,
>> just the time when they happened in the Debian release cycle.
>
>That would be the whole point. The first digit would now have a
>concrete significance. It would indicate during which Debian release
>cycle the packaging was last updated.

I think this detail is even less useful than Standards-Version itself as=20
it currently exists. Which problems will this solve?

--=20
WBR, wRAR

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