use all four numbers for the year, there's plenty of space

Author: joy
Date: 2003/07/08 17:28:07
use all four numbers for the year, there's plenty of space

git-archimport-id: srivasta@debian.org--etch/debian-policy--devel--3.0--patch-240

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 <h2>The checklist</h2>
 
 <pre>
-3.6.0                      Jul 03
+3.6.0                      Jul 2003
 
      - Added Games/Simulation and Apps/Education to menu subpolicy
        [menu policy]
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ picking your way through this list.
      - build-depends-indep need not be satisfied during clean
        target. [7.6] 
 
-3.5.10                     May 03
+3.5.10                     May 2003
 
      - packages providing the x-terminal-emulator virtual package
        ought to ensure that they interpret the command line exactly
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ picking your way through this list.
        Project may add 40 points for ranking in the alternatives [11.8.4]
 
 
-3.5.9.0                    Mar 03
+3.5.9.0                    Mar 2003
 
      - The section describing the Description: package field once again has
        full details of the long description format. [3.4.2]
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ picking your way through this list.
        (rather than <tt>/usr/share/doc/package/examples</tt>). [12.6]
 
 
-3.5.8.0                    Nov 02
+3.5.8.0                    Nov 2002
 
      - It is no longer necessary to keep a log of changes to the upstream
        sources in the copyright file. Instead, all such changes should be
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ picking your way through this list.
        manual pages to undocumented(7). Missing manual pages for programs
        are still a bug. [12.1]
 
-3.5.7.0                    Aug 02
+3.5.7.0                    Aug 2002
 
      - Packages no longer have to ask permission to call MAKEDEV in
        postinst, merely notifying the user ought to be enough. [10.6]
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ picking your way through this list.
      - [Added the last note in 3.5.6 upgrading checklist item regarding
        build rules, please see below]
 
-3.5.6.0                    Jul 01
+3.5.6.0                    Jul 2001
 
      - Emacs and TeX are no longer mandated by policy to be priority
        standard packages [2.5]
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ picking your way through this list.
        there is a new Build-Depend-Indep semantic. [7]
 
 
-3.5.5.0                    May 01
+3.5.5.0                    May 2001
 
      - Manpages should not rely on header information to have
        alternative manpage names available; it should only use
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ picking your way through this list.
          OSF/Motif-linked ones [11.8.8]
 
 
-3.5.4.0                    Apr 01
+3.5.4.0                    Apr 2001
 
      - The system-wide mail directory is now /var/mail, no longer
        /var/spool/mail.  Any packages accessing the mail spool should
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ picking your way through this list.
        [11.9; perl-policy]
 
 
-3.5.3.0                    Apr 01
+3.5.3.0                    Apr 2001
 
      - Build-Depends arch syntax has been changed to be less
        ambiguous. This should not affect any current packages [7.1]
@@ -190,25 +190,25 @@ picking your way through this list.
        needed [10.7.3]
 
 
-3.5.2.0                    Feb 01
+3.5.2.0                    Feb 2001
 
      - X app-defaults directory has moved from
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to /etc/X11/app-defaults [11.8.6]
 
 
-3.5.1.0                    Feb 01
+3.5.1.0                    Feb 2001
 
      - dpkg-shlibdeps now uses objdump, so shared libraries have to be
        run through dpkg-shlibdeps as well as executables [8.1]
 
 
-3.5.0.0                    Jan 01
+3.5.0.0                    Jan 2001
 
      - Font packages for the X Window System must now declare a
        dependency on xutils (>= 4.0.2) [11.8.5]
 
 
-3.2.1.1                    Jan 01
+3.2.1.1                    Jan 2001
 
      - Daemon startup scripts in /etc/init.d/ should not contain
        modifiable parameters; these should be moved to a file in
@@ -255,13 +255,13 @@ picking your way through this list.
        order be correct [8]
 
 
-3.1.1.0                    Nov 99
+3.1.1.0                    Nov 1999
 
      - Correction to semantics of architecture lists in Build-Depends
        etc.  Should not affect many packages [7.1]
 
 
-3.1.0.0                    Oct 99
+3.1.0.0                    Oct 1999
 
      - /usr/doc/&lt;package&gt; has to be a symlink pointing to
        /usr/share/doc/&lt;package&gt;, to be maintained by postinst
@@ -292,14 +292,14 @@ picking your way through this list.
        added [3.2.1]
 
 
-3.0.1.0                    Jul 99
+3.0.1.0                    Jul 1999
 
     -  Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
        packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
        .la files must go in the run-time library package [10.2]
 
 
-3.0.0.0                    Jun 99
+3.0.0.0                    Jun 1999
 
     - Debian formally moves from the FSSTND to the FHS. This is a
       major change, and the implications of this move are probably
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ picking your way through this list.
       /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/lastlog must be installed setgid utmp [11.3]
 
 
-2.5.0.0                         Oct 98
+2.5.0.0                         Oct 1998
 
   Policy Manual:
     - Rearranged the manual to create a new Section 4, Files
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ picking your way through this list.
     - Ratified the architecture specification strings to cater to the
       HURD.
 
-2.4.1.0                         Apr 98
+2.4.1.0                         Apr 1998
 
   Policy Manual:
     - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ picking your way through this list.
       installs shared libraries
       (cf., Policy Weekly Issue #6, fixes:bug#20515)
 
-2.4.0.0                         Jan 98
+2.4.0.0                         Jan 1998
 
     - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
       + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ picking your way through this list.
       + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
         non-X games
 
-2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0               Sep 97
+2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0               Sep 1997
 
        * new section `4.2 Daemons' including rules for
          /etc/services, /etc/protocols, /etc/rpc, and /etc/inetd.conf
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ picking your way through this list.
 
        * MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
 
-2.2.0.0                                Jul 97
+2.2.0.0                                Jul 1997
 
        * added section 4.1 `Architecture specification strings':
           use
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ picking your way through this list.
 
        * app-defaults files may not be conffiles
 
-2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0      Mar 97
+2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0      Mar 1997
 
        * two programs with different functionality must not have the
          same name
@@ -465,11 +465,11 @@ picking your way through this list.
 
        * Libraries should be stripped with "strip --strip-unneeded"
 
-2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0      Nov 96
+2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0      Nov 1996
 
        * Some changes WRT shared libraries
 
-2.1.1.0                                Sep 96
+2.1.1.0                                Sep 1996
 
        * No hard links in source packages
 
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        * Shared libraries must be installed stripped
 
-2.1.0.0                                Aug 96
+2.1.0.0                                Aug 1996
 
        * Upstream changelog must be installed too
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