Re: What’s the use for Standards-Version?
Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org> writes:
> But there could be another use of this field, which would fit into the
> test- driven workflow. What about a tool that displays the changes in
> the policy based on the declared supported version and the latest
> version ?
Like:
zcat /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz \
| sed /`grep Standards-Version debian/control | awk '{ print $2 }'`/Q
? I just use zless on that file and stop reading when I get to the
current Standards-Version of the package, but that would automate it.
This is, indeed, exactly the use of the Standards-Version field that both
Manoj and I are advocating.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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