Bug#875509: lintian: please upload a version that knows about Policy 4.1.0
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.52
Severity: wishlist
Hello!
A new version of the Debian Policy has been recently published
and [announced]. This new version has been almost immediately [added]
to the list of standards known to lintian.
[announced]: <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/08/msg00007.html>
[added]: <https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=224eb98af90fc4f6412718b850763cfe347aa847>
However, this change has not yet materialized in a new lintian
version uploaded to unstable.
This means that the lintian version currently in unstable is
not able to check for compliance with Debian Policy 4.1.0 and
complains about newer-standards-version, when it encounters
a Standards-Version: 4.1.0 package...
Please upload a new lintian version to unstable.
Thanks for your time!
Bye.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.29-9
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.18.24
ii file 1:5.32-1
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-4
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.33
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b2
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.96-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.0-5
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.72-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.24-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2+b2
ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.26.0-5
ii t1utils 1.40-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
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