On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:57:27PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hi all, > I've adopted an old package, and in its PTS page I can read "The > package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy > (Standards-Version 3.6.2 instead of 3.5.10)." and so I'd like to > upgrade to the news Debian Polcy version. > > I've searched on google, and inside DD Ref and d-policy but I found > nothing about this task (but I could be blind...). > > Is this simple as just change "Standards-Version:" inside > debian/control and generate the package to get all the errors (but do > this generates errors/warnings? which script do they come from?) or > there is a precise process to follow to upgrade to new DP version? The policy version that the PTS knows about is, indeed, Standards-Version control field. You can update that field, and run lintian/linda to catch errors which it knows how to find, but you should for sure check out the upgrading-checklist: /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz
which documents the content differents between policy versions. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
