Your message dated Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:26:20 -0700 with message-id <87y1hdtxsz....@hope.eyrie.org> and subject line Re: Bug#877697: debian-policy: discourage using all 4 digits numbers in Standards-Version has caused the Debian Bug report #877697, regarding debian-policy: discourage using all 4 digits numbers in Standards-Version to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: debian-policy Version: 4.1.1.0 Policy § 5.6.11, after describing the meaning of the digits in the policy version, reads: | Thus only the first three components of the policy version are | significant in the Standards-Version control field, and so either | these three components or all four components may be specified. [5] Now, I've only got the impressions that packages should avoid using the 4th digit in their Standards-Version field, as that number has no meaning when it comes to normative stuff. I've seen on IRC/MLs all kind of comments saying that the 4th digit should be avoided, and most packages avoid it indeed, but this wording in the policy makes me feel like it's pretty much the same. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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--- Begin Message ---Mattia Rizzolo <mat...@debian.org> writes: > Policy § 5.6.11, after describing the meaning of the digits in the > policy version, reads: > | Thus only the first three components of the policy version are > | significant in the Standards-Version control field, and so either > | these three components or all four components may be specified. [5] > Now, I've only got the impressions that packages should avoid using the > 4th digit in their Standards-Version field, as that number has no > meaning when it comes to normative stuff. I've seen on IRC/MLs all kind > of comments saying that the 4th digit should be avoided, and most > packages avoid it indeed, but this wording in the policy makes me feel > like it's pretty much the same. After some discussion of this six years ago, it doesn't look like there was any consensus to change Policy here. Most people only use three numbers. Some people prefer to use four numbers to make it very clear what version of Policy they looked at, and just in case informative updates were relevant (probably a bug in Policy if that happens, but maybe not). I think it's therefore fine to use either, which is what Policy says now, so I'm going to close this bug. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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