Bug#988911: regression: claims that udebs require a Standards-Version header

2021-08-11 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 6:02 PM Sean Whitton wrote: > > Having an S-V field makes it possible for maintainers Enabling people is great! My remark was imprecise: I merely wish the field were optional once again, and not required. Lintian would drop the warning right away. Kind regards Felix

Bug#988911: regression: claims that udebs require a Standards-Version header

2021-08-11 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Felix, On Fri 21 May 2021 at 04:04AM -07, Felix Lechner wrote: > On a side note, I am personally not convinced that a declaration of > the Standards-Version solves more problems than it creates. For most > packages, it is perpetually out of date, and Lintian's other packaging > hints are mo

Bug#988911: regression: claims that udebs require a Standards-Version header

2021-05-21 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Philip, On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 3:24 AM Philip Hands wrote: > > Running lintian from bullseye on udebs (which do not need to have a > Standards-Version header) Thanks for the well-researched bug report! Lintian did not complain about a missing field in a udeb. It was missing from the correspo

Bug#988911: regression: claims that udebs require a Standards-Version header

2021-05-21 Thread Philip Hands
Package: lintian Version: 2.104.0 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Running lintian from bullseye on udebs (which do not need to have a Standards-Version header) results in lintian throwing an error. e.g.: E: partman-basicmethods source: required-field debian/control@source Standards-Version