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Bug#472513: lintian: please warn when date in latest changelog entry (except for binNMUs) is more recent than the latest standards version publication date



Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist
Version: 1.23.46

I've recently noticed some people uploading packages with an old standards 
version; this makes me think they don't use lintian before uploading. 
With this new check it will be possible to track and either ask the 
maintainers to use (a recent version of) lintian or, if considered necessary, 
fill reports against those packages requesting the issues detected by lintian 
to be fixed.

Since some people disagree with MBF about issues already reported by lintian 
this new check could let the interested parties to anyway fill reports 
against packages whose maintainer doesn't seem to use lintian.

I'm aware of the out-of-date-standards-version check, the main point of this 
new check is that it would only be triggered if an old standards version is 
used even when the date in the latest changelog entry is more recent than the 
date of publication of the standards.

TIA

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