Bug#1115177: marked as done (lintian: warns about latest host (dev) tools API available in stable)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #1115177,
regarding lintian: warns about latest host (dev) tools API available in stable
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.124.0
Severity: important
Justification: wtf even?!
lintian currently warns if packages don’t use debian/watch version=5.
trixie was released one month ago only and only supports version=4.
This is ridiculous, pardon my french.
Please omit that warning until after the forky release. And I do mean
omit, not move to experimental.
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tag 1115177 wontfix
thanks
I agree with Nilesh's reasoning and see no actual problem with the
inclusion of d/watch v5 checks in Lintian.
Maintainers can (and should) build packages intended for unstable on
chroots/VMs/etc running unstable and thus shouldn't be affected by this.
In any case, even if Lintian doesn't suggest it, people have already and
will continue to migrate to d/watch v5. Solutions should be taken (maybe
a backported version of uscan?) to support these changes when required
on machines running stable or older releases.
I thus feel this is less a problem with Lintian itself and more with
uscan/other programs parsing d/watch files.
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