Hello,
On Fri 13 Aug 2021 at 12:36PM -07, Felix Lechner wrote:
> How do you know that people actually bring their packages up to the
> latest policy revision before they update the Standards-Version field?
There is a "must" requirement not to do that in Policy, and I trust DDs
to follow those.
Hi Sean,
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 11:08 AM Sean Whitton wrote:
>
> It is useful metadata about the state of a package for when NMUers or
> those outside of Debian want to work with it.
How do you know that people actually bring their packages up to the
latest policy revision before they update th
Hello Sam,
On Thu 12 Aug 2021 at 05:35PM -06, Sam Hartman wrote:
> I thought I provided such an argument.
> (you trimmed that part of my message when replying).
> My argument was roughly that things like build systems, use of dh,
> debian/rules interfaces etc might well need to apply to source p
Hello Sam,
On Thu 12 Aug 2021 at 05:35PM -06, Sam Hartman wrote:
> I thought I provided such an argument.
> (you trimmed that part of my message when replying).
> My argument was roughly that things like build systems, use of dh,
> debian/rules interfaces etc might well need to apply to source p
Hello,
On Fri 13 Aug 2021 at 08:10AM -07, Felix Lechner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:57 AM Bill Allombert wrote:
>>
>> Is there some new external factor that make any unaddressed lintian
>> warnings problematic ?
>
> That may go beyond the scope of the present discussion, but yes:
Hello Felix,
On Thu 12 Aug 2021 at 06:17PM -07, Felix Lechner wrote:
> Would you please point to the argument for why d-i micro debs are
> exempt from policy, or from a documented Standards-Version, or both?
As has been noted by Phil Hands, one of the points of having udebs is to
be able to igno
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 9:12 AM Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> Then I would suggest that a new lintian category is designed to catter
> for such usage, so that tools might chose not to display such warnings
> as they do with 'P: pedantic' currently.
I am not sure that helps. The tag 'outdated-sta
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 08:10:57AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:57 AM Bill Allombert wrote:
> >
> > Is there some new external factor that make any unaddressed lintian
> > warnings problematic ?
>
> That may go beyond the scope of the present discussion, but y
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:57 AM Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> Is there some new external factor that make any unaddressed lintian
> warnings problematic ?
That may go beyond the scope of the present discussion, but yes:
First, Lintian packaging hints are always viewed as imperfections;
contribu
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 06:17:18PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
> Finally, please allow me to add some powerful statistics to the
> record. The tag 'out-of-date-standards-version' currently occurs in
> 10,813 source packages in the archive (out of about 33,000). [7] It is
> an incident ratio of 33%.
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