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



Hi Sean,

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> (2021-08-12):
> 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?

Yes, that looks good to me: source packages (also) producing debs would
deserve a rightful nag.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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