After reading bug #667614 I can offer a proposal:
Suppose we have a directory for vendor/release information. For the
scope of this comment, let's call it 'vendor.d'
Whenever Debian and Ubuntu make new releases, they would then update
corresponding packages, which would update the files
vendor.d
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: lintian (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
ca
trusty doesn't know about wily.
my goodness, PLEASE carve out that volatile distro information to a
separate package!
** Description changed:
the lintian package includes hard-coded information about Ubuntu
distribution releases in /usr/share/lintian/data/changelog-file/ubuntu-
dists and p
