Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

2017-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Antonio Terceiro writes: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 05:50:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> 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

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

2017-05-02 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:44:16PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > 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 main

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

2017-05-02 Thread Charles Plessy
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

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

2017-05-02 Thread Antonio Terceiro
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 l

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

2017-04-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 05:50:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > This is a huge change, including the conversion to DocBook Many thanks to you, Guillem, Osamu and everybody else how made this happen ! -- Charles

Debian Policy 4.0.0.0

2017-04-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Hi folks, I think Debian Policy 4.0.0.0 is ready for release. Here's my proposed plan. Since this is a little bit of an unusual approach, partly because we're in the middle of a release freeze, I wanted to give people a chance to object first. This is a huge change, including the con

CVS srivasta: Forgot to change the sectioncvs -q export -d debian-policy-4.0.0.0 -r debian_version_4_0_0_0 debian-policy

2000-03-18 Thread debian-policy
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: srivastaFri Mar 17 15:19:15 PST 2000 Modified files: . : debian-policy.desc packaging-manual.desc Log message: Forgot to change the sectioncvs -q export -d debian-policy-4.0.0.0 -r