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



Hello,

On Fri 13 Aug 2021 at 12:36PM -07, Felix Lechner wrote:

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

There is a "must" requirement not to do that in Policy, and I trust DDs
to follow those.

> 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.

I have never heard of this.  Surely that's a solveable documentation
issue, even if it takes a posting to d-d-a?

-- 
Sean Whitton

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