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Bug#886258: Clarify whether or not the Standards-Version field must be present, or lower Lintian tag severity



control: reassign -1 debian-policy
control: tag -1 -moreinfo +patch
control: user debian-policy@packages.debian.org
control: usertags = normative

Hello,

On Wed 18 Jul 2018 at 03:22AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:

> To clarify, /missing/ Standards-Version?  If so it is, err, not
> prevalent at all:
>
>   https://lintian.debian.org/tags/no-standards-version-field.html

Thanks Jonathan and Chris for establishing that this Policy change would
not make any packages buggy.

Given that it seems we have a strong project consensus on always
including the field, seeking seconds to make Policy reflect that:

> diff --git a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> index 77ff81f..44080c9 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ package) are:
>
>  -  :ref:`Build-Depends et al <s-sourcebinarydeps>`
>
> --  :ref:`Standards-Version <s-f-Standards-Version>` (recommended)
> +-  :ref:`Standards-Version <s-f-Standards-Version>` (mandatory)
>
>  -  :ref:`Homepage <s-f-Homepage>`
>
> @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ is described above, in :ref:`s-controlsyntax`.
>
>  -  :ref:`Dgit <s-f-Dgit>`
>
> --  :ref:`Standards-Version <s-f-Standards-Version>` (recommended)
> +-  :ref:`Standards-Version <s-f-Standards-Version>` (mandatory)
>
>  -  :ref:`Build-Depends et al <s-sourcebinarydeps>`

-- 
Sean Whitton

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