Bug#696254: qa.debian.org: PTS has outdated current policy version
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:59:14PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 06:37:12AM +0000, Bart Martens wrote:
> > I suggest to implement the following instead :
>
> I understand your proposal, but it feels like overkill to me.
It's some work once, but afterwards PTS automatically follows any future
debian-policy version changes, so I think it's worth it.
> I'm not
> convinced there's really anything special about 3.9.4 than any other
> version of policy w.r.t the freeze.
I don't see anything special there either.
> Russ, in his 3.9.4 announcement,
> reminded us not to gratuitously update the S-V of a package during
> the freeze (and he did mention 3.9.4 there)
I think he meant that doing uploads and requesting unblocks just to bump the
standards-version is not so useful.
> but wouldn't the same apply
> to a package that currently had 3.9.2?
I agree with that.
> A gratuitous bump to 3.9.3
> wouldn't make any sense for a package targetted at wheezy.
I agree about "a gratuitous bump". About "a bump" however, I think that fixing
RC bugs combined with bumping the standards-version without further changes is
not wrong. It's not wrong that PTS suggests to bump the standards-version,
regardless of the freeze.
>
> How about a simpler modification to the current template:
>
> The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy
> (Standards-Version <first three version parts of policy version> instead of
> <package's standards version>). We recommend that such changes do not
> take place during a freeze for packages targetted at the testing
> distribution.
I prefer short messages on the PTS. If we want the PTS to stop suggesting to
bump the standards-version during the freeze, then the messages should be
hidden during the freeze. Maybe we can do that automatically. Do we have some
indicator on quantz that Debian is in freeze ?
Regards,
Bart Martens
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