Bug#1030056: qa.debian.org: The most recent lintian version known by UDD is 2.115.3

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>]

Hi Francesco,

On 30/01/23 at 20:45 +0100, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:
> Package: qa.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: qa.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: udd
> 
> Hi!
> 
> In the [UDD Lintian report] for my package, I read:
> 
> [...]
> | The most recent lintian version known by UDD is 2.115.3
> [...]
> 
> [UDD Lintian report]: <https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?packages=apt-listbugs>
> 
> However, there are more recent versions of lintian in both unstable
> and testing:
> 
>   $ rmadison lintian | grep 'unstable\|testing'
>   lintian    | 2.116.1         | testing            | source, all
>   lintian    | 2.116.2         | buildd-unstable    | source, all
>   lintian    | 2.116.2         | unstable           | source, all
> 
> Why is UDD outdated w.r.t. the lintian version?
> Shouldn't UDD be aware of the version currently in testing, or maybe
> even in unstable?
> 
> What's missing?
> Did I fail to understand anything?
> 
> Please make UDD use the latest lintian version from testing or
> unstable, or otherwise clarify my misunderstanding.
> 
> Thanks for your time and dedication!
> Bye.

The update to a newer lintian version on the UDD lintian worker is a
manual process. I'll do that soon, but I have some other Debian stuff
queued up that looks more important.
Any reason in particular you need the latest version?

Lucas