Jelmer Vernooij: > This is now implemented in the 'deb-scrub-obsolete' command that is > shipped with lintian-brush. By default, it will remove obsolete > maintscripts entries and versioned depends that were unncessary > since oldstable. > > I'm considering whether it would be possible to run this as part > of lintian-brush as well, so I'm keeping this bug open for now. >
Thanks \o/ I just noticed that you wrote a follow up that I did not see. Apologies for leaving it unanswered. I think my answer would have been to look at the changelog for the release date of the package version (assuming the maintscript affected the same package). That said, I think your solution seems entirely reasonable and I am more interested in something that work reliably than any particular implementation. Once again, thanks for implementing this and sorry for missing your question! ~Niels
