From ccf06874887cff69d4c6b8ae6a603e1a351b24d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russ Allbery Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:55:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Move silly version ordering example to a footnote Closes: #560839 --- debian/changelog | 1 + policy.sgml | 10 ++++++---- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 639ad15..c74d052 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ debian-policy (3.8.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date. + * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839) -- Bill Allombert Mon, 31 May 2010 20:00:28 +0200 diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 158a9b0..7c22310 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -3063,10 +3063,12 @@ Package: libc6 not intended to cope with version numbers containing strings of letters which the package management system cannot interpret (such as ALPHA or pre-), or with - silly orderings (the author of this manual has heard of a - package whose versions went 1.1, 1.2, - 1.3, 1, 2.1, 2.2, - 2 and so forth). + silly orderings. + The author of this manual has heard of a package whose + versions went 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, + 1, 2.1, 2.2, 2 and so + forth. +

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