Bug#487780: lintian: Check for ancient-standards-version based on age of next version
Package: lintian
Version: 1.24.1
Severity: wishlist
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The ancient-standards-version check would be more useful if it checked against the
age of the next version. A trivial example is that if debian-policy went two years
without an update, then the current standards version would be 'ancient'. The
relevant time for aging should be the amount of time since it was obsolete, not
since it was published.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers hardy-updates
APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-0ubuntu1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.16.6ubuntu4 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.21-3ubuntu1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-2ubuntu1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-deb 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libdigest-sh 5.45-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii libparse-deb 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate- 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.1-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdig 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
- -- no debconf information
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