Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0
Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy,gmane.linux.debian.devel.www |
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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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