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

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Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]> writes:

>>> 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 it currently exists.

Indeed -- we made Rules-Requires-Root and Priority:optional irrelevant
recently, couldn't we also make Standards-Version an optional field?

In many packages, having that field just results in needless churn of
debian/ files.

/Simon

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