"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.28 > Severity: wishlist > > Based on #466423, I think it would be nice for lintian to warn about > packages using a debhelper compatibility other than whatever was latest > in the most recent stable release. > > For example, take Etch, which had a debhelper compatibility level of 5 > at the time of its release. If you built a package with debhelper > compat of 4, then that should cause a warning as it is using an outdated > compatibility level. Likewise, if it were to use compatibility level 6 > (recently available), it should at the very least generate an info, or > preferrably a warning.
lintian warns about compatibility levels that are marked in the debhelper documentation as deprecated. I think that's the right tradeoff for older versions and leaves the decision with the debhelper maintainer. Currently, V4 is not marked deprecated. For the compatibility level 6 part, I personally agree (and it certainly makes backporting easier), but I know some other maintainers don't and use V6 as a matter of course, particularly for new packages. I'm not sure that it's appropriate in this case for lintian to be used as a way of trying to force consensus. Basically, I don't want to irritate people with tags that they don't agree with and aren't ever going to follow, since it makes fewer people use lintian at all. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
