Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy,gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 05:50:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I think Debian Policy 4.0.0.0 is ready for release.

One thing I was always curious about: is there a reason to use such a
deep versioning scheme?

A shorter version number would make package maintainers life a bit
easier when keeping Standards-Version: up to date. For example noticing
4.0 vs 4.1 is way easier than noticing 3.9.7.0 vs 3.9.8.0.

Another nice to have would be having the major version number matching
the target Debian release.
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