Le mercredi 12 août 2009 23:22:45, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Romain Beauxis <to...@rastageeks.org> writes: > > But there could be another use of this field, which would fit into the > > test- driven workflow. What about a tool that displays the changes in > > the policy based on the declared supported version and the latest > > version ? > > Like: > > zcat /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz \ > | sed /`grep Standards-Version debian/control | awk '{ print $2 > }'`/Q > > ? I just use zless on that file and stop reading when I get to the > current Standards-Version of the package, but that would automate it. > > This is, indeed, exactly the use of the Standards-Version field that both > Manoj and I are advocating.
Is it foolish to propose this as a lintian check ? "Hey, standards version is outdated, here are the changes that ought to be done" Even more, this could include only the changes that cannot be automated.. Romain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org