Bug#1115177: lintian: warns about latest host (dev) tools API available in stable

[Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>]

On 15/09/25 6:55 am, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2025, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> 
>> But why should it be omitted? I think moving it to info should be good
>> enough to do here -- we would like to encourage maintainers to move to
>> a newer watch version eventually.
> 
> It’s likely fatal if they upgrade prematurely, though.

I don't understand this part. Can you be verbose about how this
appears fatal to you?

Lintian version released to unstable is not meant for trixie and are
hence not hit by d/watch version 5 info tag.
As such, I am inclined to tag this bug as wontfix but I am leaving
that to lintian maintainers.

> (And, perhaps I was a bit angry, but recent lintian churn has
> been immense every time it got updated… this is getting on the
> nerves of all package maintainers…)

I'd like to hear reasons of what led you to say this, and what specific
pain points you have had since past few (with past one year) lintian releases.

I am actually willing to invest my (unpaid, volunteer) time and efforts
to help make it better for you and other developers with patches etc.