Bug#523671: qa.debian.org: wrong policy version

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

reopen 523671
thanks

+ Sandro Tosi (Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:22:47 +0200):

Hello, Sandro, Thorsten.

> That Policy version information on PTS was updated this morning, so it
> might take some time to "propagate", and to show up correctly.

That’s not really the point. Take a package like minirok; the PTS says:

  | The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian
  | Policy (Standards-Version 3.8.0 instead of 3.7.3).

So that’s fine, it tells me I should be using 3.8.0 instead of 3.7.3.
However, the submitter was reading:

  | The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian
  | Policy (Standards-Version 3.8.0 instead of 3.8.1).

Because his package had been updated already whilst the PTS still didn’t
know of this new version.

The bug is not that the PTS does not know about 3.8.1; the bug is that
it suggest using 3.8.0 over 3.8.1, which is clearly a downgrade.

The PTS should enhance the check to do, if possible, a version
comparison between the Standards-Version field in the package, and the
latest Policy version known, and only emit the warning if S-V is older,
and not always they’re different (which seems to be the case judging by
the observed behavior).

Thanks,

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