Bug#901160: Updating the description of the Standards-Version field

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Sun, Jun 10 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Seconded, but:
>
>> > +This information may be used to file bug reports automatically if
>> > your +package becomes too much out of date.
>
> Maybe this sentence should be removed from here, and added to the last
> paragraph ("A very old ...") somewhere.  Or maybe, even, removed.  Do
> we in fact file bugs automatically ?  I'm not aware of us doing so.

Just to check we're on the same page, I read this as saying that one
could do a mass bug filing of packages with a std-ver older than X when
X introduces a new requirement that we really want all packages to
satisfy as soon as possible.  I.e. the automatic filing of bugs is for
the requirement, not for the fact that the std-ver is out-of-date.

It seems that we'd only want to remove the sentence if we think that
such a practice would never be a good idea, but I can't think of a
reason why it would be bad.

-- 
Sean Whitton