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Bug#991533: lintian: please forget about required-field Standards-Version for udeb packages



Hello kibi,

On Tue 27 Jul 2021 at 08:41AM -06, Sam Hartman wrote:

>>>>>> "Cyril" == Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> writes:
>
>     Cyril> Hi, Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> (2021-07-26):
>
>     Cyril> cc-ing debian-policy@ for some possible feedback.
>
>     Cyril> I'm not sure why we should be spending time tracking down
>     Cyril> Policy changes in (source for) udeb packages… so adding then
>     Cyril> updating this field to all our packages doesn't seem to do us
>     Cyril> any good.
>
> So, it seems fairly obvious to me that Standards-Version is important
> for packages that produce both debs and udebs.
> I'm assuming the focus of our discussion then is on source packages that
> only produce udebs.
> Have I got that right?
>
> By definition, most of the policy that affects binary packages does not
> inherently apply to udebs.  As I understand it, that's kind of the point
> of udebs.

Would you agree with this?  You're only asking to stop seeing warnings
about S-V for source packages which produce only udebs?

-- 
Sean Whitton

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