Re: Upgrading the Debian Policy

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2013-09-24 14:48, Dominik George wrote:
>> If I can fix all lintian reported issues, it'll be safe to say that I've 
>> > bring the package to the last version of Debian Policy, right? 
> No. It is safe to say that if, and only if, you bump the
> Standards-Version field to 3.9.4 and *then* have lintian be silent.
> 

Lintian does not "down-scale" its checks based on the S-V field; so you
will get (almost) the same result regardless of what value you put in
the field.  The obvious exception is checks that actually cares about
the content of the S-V field (which is something like 5 tags or so).

~Niels