X-Debbugs-Cc: raph...@offensive-security.com
Package: lintian-brush
Version: 0.101
Severity: minor

Raphael writes:

> I noticed a case where lintian-brush drops a
> .maintscript file:
> https://janitor.kali.org/cupboard/pkg/hashcat-utils/059988c9-7de0-454a-9ed5-99381ae399a6/
>*
> The commit message just says that it's "obsolete". How does it decide
> that it's obsolete? Does it link the version with a date through the
> changelog? In any case, it would be great if the commit message explained
> how the tool came to this conclusion...

Ideally, ancient-maintscript-entry should list when the last version was for
which the maintscript entry was relevant and when it was uploaded.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lintian-brush depends on:
ii  devscripts                   2.21.1
ii  python3                      3.9.2-2
ii  python3-breezy               3.1.0-8
ii  python3-debian               0.1.39
ii  python3-debmutate            0.27
ii  python3-distro-info          1.0
ii  python3-dulwich              0.20.15-1
ii  python3-iniparse             0.4-3
ii  python3-ruamel.yaml          0.16.12-2
ii  python3-upstream-ontologist  0.1.14-1

Versions of packages lintian-brush recommends:
ii  decopy               0.2.4.4-0.1
ii  dos2unix             7.4.1-1
ii  gpg                  2.2.27-1
ii  libdebhelper-perl    13.3.4
ii  lintian              2.104.0
ii  ognibuild            0.0.2-1
ii  python3-asyncpg      0.21.0-1+b2
ii  python3-bs4          4.9.3-1
ii  python3-docutils     0.16+dfsg-3
ii  python3-levenshtein  0.12.2-1
ii  python3-lxml         4.6.3-1
ii  python3-markdown     3.3.4-1
ii  python3-pyinotify    0.9.6-1.3

Versions of packages lintian-brush suggests:
pn  breezy-debian      <none>
pn  gnome-pkg-tools    <none>
ii  po-debconf         1.0.21+nmu1
ii  postgresql-common  225

-- no debconf information

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