Re: New check: ahead-of-time-standards-version
Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>> Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>
>> writes:
>>
>>> Because there were maintainers who had set a standards version which was
>>> higher than the $current one (e.g. 3.8.0.0 in a package uploaded two
>>> years ago). And now that 3.8.0 is $current, the package appears not to
>>> checked for the new standards.
>>
>> This really doesn't seem useful to me, sorry. I'm not willing to apply
>> it, although I won't veto it if someone else sees it as useful enough to
>> warrant the maintenance.
>>
>
> The thing is that such packages are completely _wrong_ and should not be
> distributed as is. The more the number of packages Debian provides, the
> challenge of maintaining an overall good QA level becomes harder.
>
> Now that I think about it, this tag won't require much maintenance on the
> test suite, as it doesn't print any extra information. So if a package has
> a Standards version ahead of its time the tags. file needs to be modified
> only once (unless the date on the most recent changelog entry is changed,
> of course).
>
> So if it won't require much maintenance on the test suite side, and
> doesn't require any other kind of maintenance (not even keeping the hard
> coded standards-date relation list) I don't see any reason not to include
> it.
>
> Writing a separate tool to perform this kind of check sounds like a waste
> of time (spent checking all the packages that are already being checked by
> lintian) and resources that isn't needed.
>
> So please reconsider adding this check to lintian.
Any updates?
>
> Cheers,
Cheers,
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