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Bug#514853: lintian: "Distribution" field conforming to standard is not accepted



Gabor Kiss wrote, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:57 AM
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Debian Policy Manual section 5.6.14 Distribution writes:

In a .changes file or parsed changelog output this contains
the (space-separated) name(s) of the distribution(s) where
this version of the package should be installed.

However this line is refused by lintian:

Distribution: testing stable

That section of Policy also claims that "frozen" is a valid distribution and that one can't upload to "testing" (although it could be argue that tpu isn't testing), so it could possibly do with some attention. :-/

Whilst "testing stable" is technically valid, I'm not entirely sure that all parts of the archive software would do the right thing with such a package.

Regards,

Adam



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