Bug#472513: lintian: please warn when date in latest changelog entry (except for binNMUs) is more recent than the latest standards version publication date
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 03:07:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Raphael Geissert" <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:
> > The difference consists on being able to tell 'maintainer John Doe has
> > uploaded a package with an old standards version, why did he do that?'.
> > The out-of-date-standards-version check can't tell that.
>
> Hm, if we included release dates for each version of Policy in lintian, we
> could suppress the warning about standards-version if the package date is
> older than the newer standards version, which would accomplish the same
> thing. And that makes some sense to me -- packages that predate a new
> version of Policy not referencing the latest standards-version really
> isn't a problem.
>
> What do you think, Frank? It would reduce a lot of noise on lintian.d.o,
> and we don't generally want maintainers to upload new packages only
> because of a standards-version bump....
Sounds reasonable. It should probably only suppress "out-of-date" and
not "ancient".
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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