Upstream has decided that the current behavior is correct, and has modified the man page as follows:
Remove text: "1" is equivalent to "1.0". Replaced with text: "1" is equivalent to "1.2" (the commonly preferred 1.x format). Marking this as fixed-upstream, to be included in next update. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org