Hi Sean, On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 11:08 AM Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote: > > It is useful metadata about the state of a package for when NMUers or > those outside of Debian want to work with it.
How do you know that people actually bring their packages up to the latest policy revision before they update the Standards-Version field? I believe people bump the Standards-Version in order to unleash the most recent Lintian tags, which is a fallacy that makes the field unreliable, and probably superfluous. Kind regards Felix Lechner