Re: What’s the use for Standards-Version?

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Charles Plessy 

|  5.6.11 Standards-Version
|  
|    The most recent version of the standards (the policy manual and associated
|    texts) with which the package complies. 
| 
| This conveys the impression that the field is there to reflect a fact, rather
| than being a convenience bookmark for the maintainer. Moreover, with this
| definition, the field becomes outdated each time a new Policy is released
| (except for minor patch levels). This very clearly qualifies it as meta-data,
| and in the future, it woud benefit of being treated as such.

Yes, what is in debian/control _is_ metadata.  Like, what is the package
name, who is the maintainer, etc.  I don't see why you think
Standards-version is some other class of metadata than, say the
maintainer, the homepage or the description.  Or are you suggesting we
should get rid of those too from debian/control, and if so, to what
purpose?

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