On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:22:48AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Oct 04 2017, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > > I include it because it makes it unambiguous which version of policy > > the team referred to when preparing the package. Micro policy > > releases are not supposed to change the normative stuff but sometimes > > they clarify the text of normative sections and that context can be > > useful for understanding whether a later clarification was taken into > > account in the packaging. > > > > My feeling is that this is fine and that those comments on IRC/MLs are > > misguided. But I could easily be persuaded otherwise. > > This seems like a reasonable use of all four digits. > > I would like to reassign this to Lintian, which could say "did you > really mean to use all four?"
Doing that would be lead to the removal of four digits by maintainers for all practical prupose. Nobody is going to add a lintian exception for this. If four digits are fine, then lintian whould not warn against them. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.