On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:16:14 -0500 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote: > > What would you think of deprecating this header? > > This would be bad, since when someone looks at the package, they > would not know easily what they have to look for to update the > package. The Standards Version gives a pointer into the upgrading > checklist, and that remains useful. In which case all we need is the existing lintian check and for Standards-Version to be ignored by dpkg-dev so that it doesn't get into the .dsc, it doesn't get into the Sources.gz and it is finally OK to get rid of all these pointless messages in debian/changelog.gz: * updated Standards-Version (no changes needed) If people really want a way of scanning the Standards-Version from outside the source, it could be added as a field in the PTS, reading from the .diff.gz. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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