control: reassign -1 developers-reference Hello,
On Sun 01 Dec 2024 at 09:44pm -08, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi, > >> This would not constitute any sort of rejection for which maintainers of >> packages would need to be concerned. It does not mean anyone's >> practices should change. >> >> It does not mean that there is no policy (lowercase 'p') for these >> version strings in Debian. > > What I am trying to express here is that I filed this for Policy > inclusion specifically due to the normative status, so I can write for > example a Lintian check for it. devref and Policy are both normative, just about different things, and in different ways. You can already go ahead and write a Lintian check for it. It doesn't need to be in devref or Policy or anywhere else. > My intent here was to suggest specifically that the version of form > 0.0~git20130606.b00ec39-1 would be elevated as the Policy recommended > form, as it makes sense and is already most popular. You haven't made the case for this being in Policy as opposed to devref. -- Sean Whitton
