Bug#487780: lintian: Check for ancient-standards-version based on age of next version
Scott Kitterman <scott@kitterman.com> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.24.1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> 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.
Hm, yes, I think I agree.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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