Bug#917566: lintian: please warn about non-supported previous versions
[2018-12-28 19:42] Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
> Dmitry,
>
> > 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 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.
>
> Alas, unless we can think of a more-reliable way of doing this I fear this
> will be far too full of false-positives or will simply not detect enough
> cases to be prioritised. :(
Well, we could hardcode dates of Debian releases in Lintian. It is just
10 dates. Any reference to version, older then two releases ago would be
warrant low-severity moderate-certanity notification.
After all, how often do we have something like 2.76-4 in code is not version?
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