On Fri, Aug 13, 2021, at 17:37, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Fri 13 Aug 2021 at 12:36PM -07, Felix Lechner wrote: > > > How do you know that people actually bring their packages up to the > > latest policy revision before they update the Standards-Version field? > > There is a "must" requirement not to do that in Policy, and I trust DDs > to follow those.
Indeed... > > I believe people bump the Standards-Version in order to unleash the > > most recent Lintian tags, which is a fallacy that makes the field > > unreliable, and probably superfluous. > > I have never heard of this. Surely that's a solveable documentation > issue, even if it takes a posting to d-d-a? I haven't heard of it either, I personally go over the upgrading checklist by policy version before I update the field in any packages I am working on. It would be enough to add to lintian a CLI option to force a standards-version to use as baseline, hopefully? Assuming it doesn't have one yet, which it might very well have... -- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]>
