Re: On Policy Compliance (was Re: static user IDs)

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Chris Lawrence wrote:
> All packages are compliant with policy if they meet
> the requirements in the version of policy their Standards-Version
> indicates.

Since when? According to the policy manual:

     You should specify the most recent version of the packaging standards
     with which your package complies in the source package's
     `Standards-Version' field.

     This value will be used to file bug reports automatically if your
     package becomes too much out of date.

Nowhere there or in the rest of that section does it say what you claim. And
never before the past month or so have people even held this opinion, nor
does lintian test against anything but the current policy, nor have we ever
talked about minimum acceptable policy versions before a few weeks ago.

I think people are forgetting what the field was originally for and making
things up. That's not a good thing. It happens all too often in debian, too
(which is why we really need detailed rationalle sections to all our
documents).

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