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Re: Wait for new Debian policy version?



On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 11:20:50 -0400, Robert J. Clay wrote:

> Now that Stretch has been released (yah!) there are a number of pkg-perl
> maintained Perl modules for which I am an (or the) uploader which have been
> waiting for version updates to be packaged.  Some of them need
>  Standards-Version updates in any case but should I wait until 4.x.x makes
> it in and lintian gets updated?  

lintian got updated today :)

> Or just assume that there will plenty of
> opportunity to update that for the packages later on and get the new
> versions packaged now?

I think currently, as long as policy 4.0.0 is not yet in unstable, it
doesn't matter if you use 3.9.8 or 4.0.0 (as long as the package
conforms to the respective version).


Cheers,
gregor

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