Hi Philip, On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 3:24 AM Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: > > Running lintian from bullseye on udebs (which do not need to have a > Standards-Version header)
Thanks for the well-researched bug report! Lintian did not complain about a missing field in a udeb. It was missing from the corresponding source. According to policy 5.4 [1] the field is mandatory in the dsc. Perhaps you meant to assert that the field is *also* not required in dscs that produce only udebs, but that may stretch (and could be outside of) what Lintian can figure out. On a side note, I am personally not convinced that a declaration of the Standards-Version solves more problems than it creates. For most packages, it is perpetually out of date, and Lintian's other packaging hints are more helpful. I already made efforts to reduce its impact on contributors [2] and would prefer if the field were dropped from our package specifications. Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#debian-source-control-files-dsc [2] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/53ead395a217a8a7969f7f96e3882d2da402c96d
