On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:32:20AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Josip Rodin wrote: > > You assign way too much value to the latest two revisions. Try reading > > upgrading-checklist.txt. In general, relying on automated tools to check > > packages, rather than inspecting them manually based on actual (*gasp*!) > > knowledge of policy, isn't particularly smart. > > Well for sure. But it bothers me because I use "debuild" to build my > packages which automatically calls lintian after building the packages and > it is really annoying to be informed about the fact that lintian does not > know the latest policy version. IMHO it is a lintian bug to hardcode the > policy version to check against instead at least verifying an installed > policy version.
Not really; the people complaining about newer-standards-version serve to remind the lintian maintainer that he needs to update lintian for any changes in policy. :) Updating lintian is not just a matter of increasing the number. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
