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Re: Debian Janitor and us



Hi Florian,

> with one added thought: in the past, I've found it useful to
> identify packages that haven't had an upload in many years by
> grepping for Standards-Version in debian/control. Would it be
> possible to exclude the out-of-date-standards-version and
> ancient-standards-version lintian tags from the fixes committed
> by Janitor?

AFAIK, those packages have the grey «action needed» tag in:
https://tracker.debian.org/teams/pkg-perl/

> This would also prevent packages with less-frequent upstream
> releases to collect a dozen or more updates to S-V between
> uploads....

As long as they do not interfere with new released code, I don't
see having many janitor changes between releases as an issue.
Is there something we should take into account or is it only a
matter of taste?

Cheers!
Alex

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