On Sep 23, Joey Hess wrote: > Chris Lawrence wrote: > > All packages are compliant with policy if they meet > > the requirements in the version of policy their Standards-Version > > indicates. > > Since when? According to the policy manual: > > You should specify the most recent version of the packaging standards > with which your package complies in the source package's > `Standards-Version' field. > > This value will be used to file bug reports automatically if your > package becomes too much out of date. > > Nowhere there or in the rest of that section does it say what you claim. And > never before the past month or so have people even held this opinion, nor > does lintian test against anything but the current policy, nor have we ever > talked about minimum acceptable policy versions before a few weeks ago.
"Compliant with policy" may have been a bit strong; how about "acceptable for release." Anyway, the point is: change policy, but have reasonable transitions in policy changes that break things, and accept the reality that packages will not be updated to new versions of policy quickly. Chris -- ============================================================================= | Chris Lawrence | You have a computer. Do you have Linux? | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.linux-m68k.org/index.html | | | | | Grad Student, Pol. Sci. | Are you tired of politics as usual? | | University of Mississippi | http://www.lp.org/ | =============================================================================
