Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.66
Severity: normal

I agree with suggestion by Niels Thykier (on debian-devel):

Andrey Rahmatullin:
> On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 05:26:35PM +0000, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> IMO the point of the field is to ensure that you /don't/ have to upgrade
>> to the latest version of Policy right away.  It allows you to keep track
>> of the version of Policy you are up-to-date with, so you can do it
>> later/someone more interested in the changes can do it.
>>
>> I think that Lintian shouldn't warn about not using the latest
>> Standards-Version; perhaps it should warn when you're using a really old
>> one.

This would just be a question of turning down the warning for
"old-standards-version" to an info.  We have a separate warning
(ancient-standards-version) that triggers when your S-V is (currently) 2
years behind.

IOW, trivially doable in lintian, please file a bug if you want this.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                          2.29.1-12
ii  bzip2                             1.0.6-8.1
ii  diffstat                          1.61-1+b1
ii  dpkg                              1.19.0.4
ii  file                              1:5.32-1
ii  gettext                           0.19.8.1-4
ii  intltool-debian                   0.35.0+20060710.4
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                   0.1.33
ii  libarchive-zip-perl               1.60-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl            0.51-1
ii  libclone-perl                     0.39-1
ii  libdpkg-perl                      1.19.0.4
ii  libemail-valid-perl               1.202-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl              0.07-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                   0.96-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl            0.416-1+b3
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl     1.2.0-12
ii  libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.24.1-7
ii  libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.26.1-3
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl          0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl                  2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                       1.72-2
ii  libxml-simple-perl                2.24-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl              0.63-2+b2
ii  man-db                            2.7.6.1-4
ii  patchutils                        0.3.4-2
ii  perl                              5.26.1-3
ii  t1utils                           1.41-2
ii  xz-utils                          5.2.2-1.3

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl  0.19-1+b4

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.19.0.4
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-3+b2
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.47-1

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