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Re: Standards-Version field should be deprecated



On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:10:52PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Thursday, September 8, 2016 8:39:01 AM CEST Russ Allbery wrote:
> > If Lintian says that the Standards-Version field is out of date, I then
> > open /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz, scroll down
> > to the current value of Standards-Version, and then read backwards to the
> > top, checking each item against my knowledge of the package to see if
> > there's anything I need to update.  Then I update Standards-Version in the
> > packaging.
> 
> Good point. I'm going to change 'cme fix dpkg' warning message to mention 
> this. The message will look like:
> 
> Warning in 'control source Standards-Version' value '3.9.5': Current standards 
> version is 3.9.8. Please read https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
> upgrading-checklist.html to check what changes need to applied to your package 
> to upgrade it from standard version 3.9.5 to 3.9.8

I'd actually prefer if the text would point to
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz - alternativly
maybe it could point to both the local file and the web URL.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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