Bug#663516: lintian: Should we retire old/reundant tags
Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> writes:
> * Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 2012-03-11, 15:29:
>> Are we sure that no one is going to do a manual binNMU and not know the
>> new versioning system? We still do get occasional manual binNMUs.
> I estimate that the number of people who still remember the old style and
> haven't heard of the new style, and feel adventurous to upload binNMUs
> built by hand is about 0.
Yeah, you're probably right.
> Anyway, I believe such a binNMU would be rejected by dak (because it
> couldn't find source for such version).
If that's the case, then I'm definitely fine with dropping this check.
I think there's a pending patch for Policy that was most of the way
through the process that would document our version number conventions
more completely. I should dig that up.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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