Thanks Jonas! Exactly the information I was looking for. I'm reading through the policy manual (and more) now. Regards, -Christopher On Sat, Nov 29 2014, Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> wrote: > Hi Christopher, > > Quoting Christopher Reichert (2014-11-29 06:10:04) >> I've been working on the haskell-hsqml package and I noticed some >> minor Lintian warnings: >> >> ``` >> W: haskell-hsqml source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.9.5 (current is 3.9.6) >> ``` >> >> Is it okay for me to bump this to 3.9.6 in tools/template-debian? I've >> compiled against some test packages and it doesn't seem to break any >> packages.. Here is a list of some other affected pkg-haskell packages >> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/out-of-date-standards-version.html > > That number in the control file do not change anything for the > compilation, but is a from you the maintainer to the rest of the World > which version of Debian Policy you've checked and verified that the > package complies with. > > So yes, do update it, but do it *only* after actually verifying that the > package actually do comply with newer version of Debian Policy. > > To help check that, you may find this file handy: > /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz > > >> I also noticed: >> ``` >> W: libghc-hsqml-dev: new-package-should-close-itp-bug >> ``` >> >> I didn't open an itp bug for network-conduit-tls so I'm assuming this >> is not extremely important. Just curious as I would like to fix what I >> can. > > If you create a new package without doing the recommended(!) announcing > it through filing an ITP bug about it, then yes, you can simply ignore > that warning. > > > Regards, > > - Jonas -- Christopher Reichert irc: creichert gpg: C81D 18C8 862A 3618 1376 FFA5 6BFC A992 9955 929B
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