Bug#886210: Downgrade "old-standards-version" to an info
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.66
Severity: normal
I agree with suggestion by Niels Thykier (on debian-devel):
Andrey Rahmatullin:
> On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 05:26:35PM +0000, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> IMO the point of the field is to ensure that you /don't/ have to upgrade
>> to the latest version of Policy right away. It allows you to keep track
>> of the version of Policy you are up-to-date with, so you can do it
>> later/someone more interested in the changes can do it.
>>
>> I think that Lintian shouldn't warn about not using the latest
>> Standards-Version; perhaps it should warn when you're using a really old
>> one.
This would just be a question of turning down the warning for
"old-standards-version" to an info. We have a separate warning
(ancient-standards-version) that triggers when your S-V is (currently) 2
years behind.
IOW, trivially doable in lintian, please file a bug if you want this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.29.1-12
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.19.0.4
ii file 1:5.32-1
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-4
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.33
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.60-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.39-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.4
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.96-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1-7
ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.1-3
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.72-2
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.24-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2+b2
ii man-db 2.7.6.1-4
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.26.1-3
ii t1utils 1.41-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.4
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.47-1
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