Le Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:17:21AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro a écrit : > > 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.
Hi Antonio, "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." https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Standards-Version Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
