[Debian-olpc-devel] Revert standards version to 3.7.3 (README.source needed to comply with 3.8.0).

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Wed Dec 3 23:49:59 UTC 2008


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On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 07:29:05PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
>On Wednesday 03 December 2008 17:46, git.debian.org Git - 
>collab-maint/sugar-calculate-activity.git/rss log: Jonas Smedegaard <> wrote:
>> Revert standards version to 3.7.3 (README.source needed to comply with
>> 3.8.0).
>
>README.source is a "should", not a "must".
>
>And I really like it, so I will not forget this. In the meanwhile I 
>prefered a quiet lintian.

Lintian is less important than policy.

Please do not quiet down lintian except when it is wrong.

It is not wrong for lintian to warn about the package only following an 
old version of Debian Policy. It is a nice reminder to us that we should 
adjust the packaging to match newer releases of Debian Policy.


  - Jonas

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