On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 10:17:44AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > 2. -policy documents best current *ADOPTED* practice. > > That's new to me. For me, Policy is how it _should_ or _must_ be, by > steering things in the right directions.
Policy generally does this about things which are important for interoperability between packages. I don't think it's the place for this kind of cosmetic recommendation, in either direction. The text we have today steers a good course: it warns against a couple of practices that might inadvertently be adopted without realising the implications (date formats that don't sort properly as versions, and the interaction between hyphens as separators and the semantics of hyphens in versions defined elsewhere in policy), but it simply says "possibly with punctuation between the components" etc. without taking a particular aesthetic stance. I think that's right. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
