On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Neil Williams<codeh...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:16:14 -0500 > Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> wrote: > >> > What would you think of deprecating this header? >> >> This would be bad, since when someone looks at the package, they >> would not know easily what they have to look for to update the >> package. The Standards Version gives a pointer into the upgrading >> checklist, and that remains useful. > > In which case all we need is the existing lintian check and for > Standards-Version to be ignored by dpkg-dev so that it doesn't get into > the .dsc, it doesn't get into the Sources.gz and it is finally OK to > get rid of all these pointless messages in debian/changelog.gz: > > * updated Standards-Version (no changes needed) > > If people really want a way of scanning the Standards-Version from > outside the source, it could be added as a field in the PTS, reading > from the .diff.gz.
IIRC, there is a plan for splitting Descriptions out of the Packages files, so Standards-Version could get a similar treatment. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
