Package: lintian Version: 2.104.0 Severity: wishlist Maintainer manual pages are already reported by lintian in pedantic mode [1]. Such manual pages may be OK per se, but, if outdated, they may cause confusion for downstream users. Thus I think it is important to report outdated maintainer manual pages. The same consensus seems to have been reached on debian-med@, in a thread on manual page maintenance [2]. I think the severity of such hint should be warning, as outdated manual pages may be misleading to the downstream users.
To implement this hint, already existing code for locating maintainer manual pages could be re-used. For every located maintainer manual page, lintian should extract and compare the date and source package version in .TH line to the actual date and version provided in the d/changelog. Possible heuristics: upstream parts of the versions must match, date in the manual page must be more recent than the last upload of previous upstream release. [1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/maintainer-manual-page.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2020/12/msg00224.html Andrius
