Bug#901160: Updating the description of the Standards-Version field
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 12:22:26PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
> 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 your +package becomes too much out of date.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 the requirement, not for the fact that the std-ver is out-of-date.
I do not think we ever used standard-version for that purpose, because
a std-ver increase is bound to bring an unspecified set of new requirements
above the the one we really want to implement quickly, ad so it would be
counterproductive to require them to be implemented at the same time.
Also probably not all package are relevant for the new requirement
anyway.
I rather read it as a basic QA check: if a package carries a 5-year old
std-ver, probably it is not maintained anymore.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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