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Re: HowTo upgrade to a newer Debian Policy version



> Hi all,
> I've adopted an old package, and in its PTS page I can read "The
> package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy
> (Standards-Version 3.6.2 instead of 3.5.10)." and so I'd like to
> upgrade to the news Debian Polcy version.
>
> I've searched on google, and inside DD Ref and d-policy but I found
> nothing about this task (but I could be blind...).
>
> Is this simple as just change "Standards-Version:" inside
> debian/control and generate the package to get all the errors (but do
> this generates errors/warnings? which script do they come from?) or
> there is a precise process to follow to upgrade to new DP version?
No it is not :-D

Your package should adhere to the new policy as well. Just look at the
upgrade-checklist. /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrade-checklist.txt.gz

Greetings Arjan




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