Package: lintian Version: 2.5.117 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, please add information tag about references to ancient package version in maintainer scripts. As far as I know [citation needed], Debian only supports upgrades of consequenced releases -- it means that maintainer is not obliged to make sure that Debian 8 -> Debian 10 (skipping Debian 9) works smoothly. As such, comprasions with versions, older then oldstable in maintainer script (dpkg --compare-versions "$2" '<<' "when-world-was-young") could be dropped. I'd argue, that they should be dropped, since it is not going to be tested. As of implementation side, given that Lintian by design do not use network, it is possible to assume that Debian release happens once a 2.5 year (or so), so versions older then 5.5 years (possible to lookup in d/changelog) are below threhold. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: runit (via /run/runit.stopit) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-11 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii diffstat 1.62-1 ii dpkg 1.19.2 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.2 ii file 1:5.34-2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9 ii gpg 2.2.12-1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1 pn libdigest-sha-perl <none> ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.2 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 pn libfile-basedir-perl <none> ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13 pn libtext-levenshtein-perl <none> pn libtimedate-perl <none> ii liburi-perl 1.74-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.75+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.4-3 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.28.1-3 ii t1utils 1.41-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3 pn libtext-template-perl <none> -- no debconf information -- debsums errors found: debsums: changed file /usr/share/lintian/checks/cruft.pm (from lintian package)
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