On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
Well for sure. But then the warnig against the package is wrong. The
message should be: Sorry, Lintian is only able to check against policy
version <policy-known-by lintian>. The current policy on your system is
<parsed-policy-number>. Please send patches to the lintian maintainer to
support his fine work.
It is not fair to issue warnings against a package if the warning should be
intended to the checker itself.
Kind regards
Andreas.
