Re: ancient-standards-version and "replay-ability"

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:

> However, I feel "ancient-standards-version" violates this and I believe
> we should fix this special case.  The violation arrives from the
> following code snippet in checks/standards-version:

>     if ($obsdate + (60 * 60 * 24 * 365 * 2) < time) {
>         tag 'ancient-standards-version', $tag;
>     } else {
>        [...]

> Where we compare the release date of a given standards-version
> ($obsdate) to the system time.

We could go back to explicitly tagging the dividing line between obsolete
and ancient and moving it from time to time.  That probably has a good
deal of merit, even if it means somewhat more maintenance work for us.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>