On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:10:52PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Thursday, September 8, 2016 8:39:01 AM CEST Russ Allbery wrote: > > If Lintian says that the Standards-Version field is out of date, I then > > open /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz, scroll down > > to the current value of Standards-Version, and then read backwards to the > > top, checking each item against my knowledge of the package to see if > > there's anything I need to update. Then I update Standards-Version in the > > packaging. > > Good point. I'm going to change 'cme fix dpkg' warning message to mention > this. The message will look like: > > Warning in 'control source Standards-Version' value '3.9.5': Current > standards > version is 3.9.8. Please read https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ > upgrading-checklist.html to check what changes need to applied to your > package > to upgrade it from standard version 3.9.5 to 3.9.8
I'd actually prefer if the text would point to
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz - alternativly
maybe it could point to both the local file and the web URL.
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cheers,
Holger
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