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

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Sean,

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 11:08 AM Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
>
> It is useful metadata about the state of a package for when NMUers or
> those outside of Debian want to work with it.

How do you know that people actually bring their packages up to the
latest policy revision before they update the Standards-Version field?

I believe people bump the Standards-Version in order to unleash the
most recent Lintian tags, which is a fallacy that makes the field
unreliable, and probably superfluous.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner