Package: lintian Version: 2.104.0 Severity: minor Dear lintian maintainers, While preparing the knot 3.0.2-2 release, `lintian -i -EvIL -pedantic ../knot_3.0.2-2_amd64.changes` reports: ... X: knot: maintainer-script-supports-ancient-package-version postinst:14 2.5.0-1 (2017-06-07 < 2017-06-18) N: I: maintainer-script-supports-ancient-package-version N: N: The maintainer script appears to detect the specified version which N: was prepared prior to the release of oldstable. N: N: Please remove the code/check for this version as such upgrades (etc.) N: are unsupported. N: N: Severity: info N: N: Check: scripts N: N: This tag is experimental. 2.5.0-1 is indeed an ancient package version. But in contrast to the information from lintian, it was released after oldstable (currently stretch), that includes 2.4.0-3+deb9u1: knot | 1.6.0-1+deb8u1 | oldoldstable | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386 knot | 2.4.0-3+deb9u1 | oldstable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x knot | 2.4.0-3+deb9u1 | oldstable-debug | source knot | 2.7.6-2~bpo9+1 | stretch-backports | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x knot | 2.7.6-2~bpo9+1 | stretch-backports-debug | source knot | 2.7.6-2 | stable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x knot | 2.9.6-1 | testing | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x knot | 2.9.6-1 | unstable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x knot | 2.9.6-1 | unstable-debug | source knot | 3.0.2-1 | experimental | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x knot | 3.0.2-1 | experimental-debug | source Cheers, -- Santiago -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=es_CO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_CO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.35.1-3 ii bzip2 1.0.8-4 ii diffstat 1.63-1 ii dpkg 1.20.5 ii dpkg-dev 1.20.5 ii file 1:5.39-3 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-10 ii gpg 2.2.20-1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.36+b4 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1 ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b6 ii libclone-perl 0.45-1+b1 ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.24-1 ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.25-1+b1 ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1 ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1 ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-1+b2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.5 ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.04-1+b3 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1 ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1 ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-1 ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2 ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004003-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b6 ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.11-1 ii libmoo-perl 2.004004-1 ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1 ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.114-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b7 ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.59-2+b1 ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.018+ds-1+b1 ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.018+ds-1+b1 ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-1 ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-4+b8 ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.12-1+b1 ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.8-1+b1 ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1 ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-1+b3 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-1 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.012000-1 ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1+b2 ii liburi-perl 5.05-1 ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-2+b1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.82+repack-1+b1 ii lzip 1.21-8 ii lzop 1.04-2 ii man-db 2.9.3-2 ii patchutils 0.4.2-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.32.0-5 ii t1utils 1.41-4 ii unzip 6.0-25 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> pn libtext-template-perl <none> -- no debconf information
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