Re: trends.debian.net updated
On April 12, 2020 7:11:57 PM UTC, Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> wrote:
>Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> writes:
>> On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 08:03:09PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
>>> Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> writes:
>>> > Idea: perhaps we could make no unrestricted (maintainer, team, or
>QA) upload
>>> > for 10 years a RC bug on its own? That threshold could then be
>gradually
>>> > reduced to eg. 5 years, as worst offenders get fixed.
>>>
>>> One could deprecate old Standards-Version and require a version not
>that
>>> was not superceded for more than five years.
>>
>> That's not what Standards-Version means.
>>
>> You don't get to say "I know my package does not comply with current
>> Policy, but the Standards-Version claims an old version of Policy so
>> that's fine". You must always be compliant with current policy (in
>> unstable), and if policy changes in ways that apply to your package,
>you
>> need to update it.
>>
>> One of my packages, logtool, hasn't seen an upstream change since the
>> early naughties, and as a result there are 7 years between logtool
>> 1.2.8-8 and logtool 1.2.8-9.
>>
>> That however didn't mean it wasn't maintained, just that it didn't
>need
>> any update in 7 years.
>>
>> The only reason for Standards-Version to exist is so that when you or
>> whoever comes after you look at things a few days/weeks/months/years
>> down the line, you know what has changed in Policy since it was last
>> touched and can use upgrading-checklist.txt
>
>In my understanding the Standards-Version documents up to which policy
>version a package was checked for compliance.
>
>One could expect from maintainers that they check their packages for
>compliance regularly and that they document that. For a package that
>had no
>documented check for seven years it is OK to file an RC bug in order to
>clarify the compliance.
>
>Cheers
>
>Ole
'I think something might possibly be wrong, but I can't be bothered to check' isn't a category of 'problem' that qualifies for an RC bug. RC bugs are for real problems.
Scott K
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