Bug#199231: standards version check is wrong
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 06:52:08PM +0100, Paul Brossier wrote:
> severity 199231 important
> thanks
>
> i was trying to figure what version lintian needs:
> - 3.5.8 gives no warning,
> - 3.6.0, 3.6.1 and 3.6.1.0 all give warnings
>
> this (huge) page is somewhat showing which packages are the less wrong:
> http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tnewer-standards-version.html
lintian.debian.org has a (severly) outdated version of lintian. The
current lintian (1.23.0) is correct.
This bugreport is about removing the 'newer-standards-version' check
altogether, a request I'd personally reject (but I don't know the
opinion of my fellow lintian developers).
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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