On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 03:07:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Raphael Geissert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The difference consists on being able to tell 'maintainer John Doe has > > uploaded a package with an old standards version, why did he do that?'. > > The out-of-date-standards-version check can't tell that. > > Hm, if we included release dates for each version of Policy in lintian, we > could suppress the warning about standards-version if the package date is > older than the newer standards version, which would accomplish the same > thing. And that makes some sense to me -- packages that predate a new > version of Policy not referencing the latest standards-version really > isn't a problem. > > What do you think, Frank? It would reduce a lot of noise on lintian.d.o, > and we don't generally want maintainers to upload new packages only > because of a standards-version bump....
Sounds reasonable. It should probably only suppress "out-of-date" and not "ancient". Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
