Re: Bug#991533: lintian: please forget about required-field Standards-Version for udeb packages
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021, at 17:37, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Fri 13 Aug 2021 at 12:36PM -07, Felix Lechner wrote:
>
> > How do you know that people actually bring their packages up to the
> > latest policy revision before they update the Standards-Version field?
>
> There is a "must" requirement not to do that in Policy, and I trust DDs
> to follow those.
Indeed...
> > I believe people bump the Standards-Version in order to unleash the
> > most recent Lintian tags, which is a fallacy that makes the field
> > unreliable, and probably superfluous.
>
> I have never heard of this. Surely that's a solveable documentation
> issue, even if it takes a posting to d-d-a?
I haven't heard of it either, I personally go over the upgrading checklist by policy version before I update the field in any packages I am working on.
It would be enough to add to lintian a CLI option to force a standards-version to use as baseline, hopefully? Assuming it doesn't have one yet, which it might very well have...
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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
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