Bug#1071489: tracker.debian.org: please upgrade Lintian to the latest

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

ma 20. toukok. 2024 klo 18.09 Lucas Nussbaum (lucas@debian.org) kirjoitti:
> On 20/05/24 at 08:39 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > Package: tracker.debian.org
> > Severity: important
> >
> > The Lintian on tracker.debian.org complains that 4.7.0 is newer-standards-version.
> >
> > Can you please upgrade it to the latest version?
>
> I think that tracker.d.o gets its lintian information from UDD (so the
> data is the same as one available from
> https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?email1=martin-eric.racine%40iki.fi&email2=&email3=&packages=&ignpackages=&format=html&lt_error=on&lt_warning=on&lintian_tag=#all
> )
>
> As you can see in the footer of that page, UDD runs lintian 2.117.0.
> That's the latest lintian version.
>
> So the real problem is that the lintian version in the archive doesn't
> know about the debian-policy version in the archive...

Noted. This really needs to become a streamlined process i.e. whenever
a new policy is published, debian-policy and lintian get pushed into
Unstable at the same time, and Lintian immediately updated on all
applicable hosts. Otherwise, Lintian generates false positives on
newer-standards-version and also misses new things it should check to
match compliance with the new standard, all of which needlessly
complicates package maintainers' job.

Martin-Éric