Re: Standards version information in .deb

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote:

> I've been wondering why the Standards-Version field is not copied into
> the .deb files.  It appears to me that to find the information, one
> has to look at the either a Sources file or download the package
> source itself.
> 
> Should we consider putting this field into the .deb control fields
> during the package building process?

We should probably get rid of the Standards-Version field instead, once we
have tools like lintian to check whatever old policy the package still
follows.

Thanks.

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