Hello Felix, On Fri 21 May 2021 at 04:04AM -07, Felix Lechner wrote: > On a side note, I am personally not convinced that a declaration of > the Standards-Version solves more problems than it creates. For most > packages, it is perpetually out of date, and Lintian's other packaging > hints are more helpful. I already made efforts to reduce its impact on > contributors [2] and would prefer if the field were dropped from our > package specifications. Having an S-V field makes it possible for maintainers to allow their package to fall behind Policy in a controlled way. Maintainers can prioritise working on other things without losing track of how far behind Policy the package has got. When it does become time to update, that update can be done efficiently. This gives maintainers more control over the time they spend on maintaining the package. Lintian is useful for ensuring Policy compliance, but its role in maintainer workflows is more amorphous than the upgrading checklist's. -- Sean Whitton
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