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Re: Lintian Warnings



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 W: haskell-hsqml source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.9.5 (current is 3.9.6)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 https://lintian.debian.org/tags/out-of-date-standards-version.html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

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