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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.13
Severity: wishlist
Debian Policy (section 5.6.11 and note 30) explicitly allows 4-components
Standards-Version fields. However, as a new maintainter, I've been
suggested on debian-mentors to stick with 3-components.
Should lintian suggests sticking with 3-components (level: info) ? There's
a bit of personal taste here.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20050902-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.11 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.15-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.5-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.34.1+20050828 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchang 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.7-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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> Debian Policy (section 5.6.11 and note 30) explicitly allows
> 4-components Standards-Version fields. However, as a new maintainter,
> I've been suggested on debian-mentors to stick with 3-components.
>
> Should lintian suggests sticking with 3-components (level: info) ?
> There's a bit of personal taste here.
Given that Policy explicitly allows the 4-component Standards-Version and
there are many Debian developers who use that form regularly, I'd say that
it's entirely personal taste and it would be inappropriate for lintian to
recommend one over the other. Yes, the fourth number doesn't really mean
anything, but I don't think this is important enough to push people about.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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