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Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?



On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 05:26:35PM +0000, Sean Whitton wrote:
> IMO the point of the field is to ensure that you /don't/ have to upgrade
> to the latest version of Policy right away.  It allows you to keep track
> of the version of Policy you are up-to-date with, so you can do it
> later/someone more interested in the changes can do it.
> 
> I think that Lintian shouldn't warn about not using the latest
> Standards-Version; perhaps it should warn when you're using a really old
> one.
If S-V is declaring that the package conforms to some older version of the
policy then all the tools should check that package against that policy
and not against the latest one.

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WBR, wRAR

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