Move silly version ordering example to a footnote

Closes: #560839

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 639ad150f3b931355a536cde01d11a40d3ced4ad..c74d05275acf67839fb0a1d56d0c2d3fd30ad0d8 100644 (file)
--- 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     noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.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 <ballombe@debian.org>  Mon, 31 May 2010 20:00:28 +0200
 

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 158a9b08341a9a3d2624430f2b98a2051def6875..7c223101cea76fa78dffb94849d33ca15993f9f7 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -3063,10 +3063,12 @@ Package: libc6
            <em>not</em> intended to cope with version numbers containing
            strings of letters which the package management system cannot
            interpret (such as <tt>ALPHA</tt> or <tt>pre-</tt>), or with
-           silly orderings (the author of this manual has heard of a
-           package whose versions went <tt>1.1</tt>, <tt>1.2</tt>,
-           <tt>1.3</tt>, <tt>1</tt>, <tt>2.1</tt>, <tt>2.2</tt>,
-           <tt>2</tt> and so forth).
+           silly orderings.<footnote>
+             The author of this manual has heard of a package whose
+             versions went <tt>1.1</tt>, <tt>1.2</tt>, <tt>1.3</tt>,
+             <tt>1</tt>, <tt>2.1</tt>, <tt>2.2</tt>, <tt>2</tt> and so
+             forth.
+           </footnote>
          </p>
        </sect1>