Hi Sylvain, On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 06:56:48PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > The check is done with 'dpkg --compare-versions' and has been there since > the initial commit: > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debian-security-support/-/blob/master/check-support-status.in#L262 > > Reversing the test triggers 29 test failures, explicitly excluding > debconf-i18n/1.5.36.1 from the report against: > debconf 1.5.36.0 2014-05-02 > > Thinking about it, I don't really understand the rationale behind > version-based filtering. [...] > What is the concrete use case for excluding packages based on version? I dunno, you'd need to ask the original author who TTBOMK doesn't read these bugs anymore...
That said, I agree with you that comparing the version doesn't really
make much sense... (because of what you wrote).
> Do we need to fix the code or security-support-ended.deb9?
I believe the code should be fixed.
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cheers,
Holger
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