I suggest to implement the following instead : The package's standards version should match the version of the package "debian-policy" in the same distribution as the package. This should be checked in distributions testing, unstable and experimental. If there is no debian-policy in the distribution, then look at debian-policy in unstable.
- package in testing should match debian-policy in testing - package in unstable should match debian-policy in unstable - package in experimental should match debian-policy in unstable The first three version parts are sufficient, but it's not an error if all four parts are used. - debian-policy version 3.9.3.1 --> standards version 3.9.3 is sufficient - debian-policy version 3.9.4.0 --> standards version 3.9.4 is sufficient The message should be produced only if the package's standards version is lower than the (first three parts of the) version of debian-policy, not when it's higher. So I would not complain about a package in testing having standards-version 3.9.4 at this time. This is the existing message template : The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version <first three version parts of policy version> instead of <package's standards version>). I suggest to change that to this template to allow multiple messages per source package : Version <package version> of this package has "Standards-Version: <package's standards version>" and should be updated to follow version <first three version parts of policy version> of Debian Policy. When a package has the same version in multiple distributions, then two versions of debian-policy could come into play, and then I suggest to look at the lowest version of debian-policy only. For example for gwhere 0.2.3.dfsg.1-3 currently in testing and unstable : Version 0.2.3.dfsg.1-3 of this package has "Standards-Version: 3.8.1" and should be updated to follow version 3.9.3 of Debian Policy. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121219063712.ga3...@master.debian.org
