]] Vincent Bernat > ❦ 1 janvier 2018 17:47 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> : > > > Purpose of the Standards-Version field is *not* to keep you busy > > silencing corresponding lintian warning, but to state which version of > > Debian Policy the package is verified to comply with. > > And why is it useful to know something like that?
Because you can then you can focus on the particular changes from when-last-synced-with-Policy rather than checking the entirety of the package against all of Policy. > If we don't comply with the latest policy, this is considered a > serious bug. No, it's not. Not complying with policy is anything from wishlist to critical all depending. > We would spare a lot of developer time by not using this field > anymore. I don't think so, I think we save quite a bit of effort by having it due to the aforementioned reasons. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
