Hello, On Sun 01 Dec 2024 at 06:53pm -08, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Please no. Rather close it and state that you do not accept this in > the policy so that there is an audit trail that this was rejected from > policy and who made the decision. > > Updates/changes elsewhere can then refer this bug as a source that > there is no policy for version strings of this sorts. Or more people > can chime in and request it to be re-opened etc. > > I assume some of the maintainers of nearly 900 packages currently > using this might have an interest to see that the policy was rejected: > ± curl http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz > | unxz > Packages > ± zgrep --only-matching -P '/.*0.0~git.*.deb' Packages | wc -l > 893 Policy and the Developers Reference are developed side-by-side. They use the same mailing list. We share DebConf BoFs. It's normal for us to move bugs back and forth between the two depending on where something would best fit. 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. -- Sean Whitton
