Control: tags -1 + wontfix On Sun, 2025-03-09 at 09:08 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > The newer-standards-version tends to be printed by mistake, usually because > someone upgraded their packaging according to the latest debian-policy before > a new Lintian got uploaded to the repository. What Lintian should instead do > is source the current Standards live from Masters, and only issue the warning > if the declared version is newer than that. src:routine-update already has > the code to perform this.
lintian must retain the ability to operate offline, so it has to include debian-policy data. routine-update is different in that it's designed to connect to the internet and fetch a new upstream version, so it might as well also grab the latest policy data while it's at it. The issue here isn't bringing lintian up-to-date (that's easy), it's maintenance. I've requested access to the Salsa repo for lintian so I can work on maintaining it since ~6 weeks ago, and still haven't been given access nor a definitive response. -- Maytham
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