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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?
From:       Steve Langasek <vorlon () debian ! org>
Date:       2018-01-03 5:33:08
Message-ID: 20180103053308.tsen3zh52wy6kr2w () virgil ! dodds ! net
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 10:22:19AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 04:25:07PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > If S-V is declaring that the package conforms to some older version of the
> > > policy then all the tools should check that package against that policy
> > > and not against the latest one.

> > No, they should not.  S-V is a declaration to the packager of what version
> > they have done the work to update to, but the policy that the package should
> > comply with is still the most current one and the tools should facilitate
> > that.
> That's not what the Policy thinks though:
> "The most recent version of the standards (the policy manual and
> associated texts) with which the package complies."

These statements are not in contradiction.  Saying "this package complies
with policy version X" doesn't say anything about what version of policy the
package *should* comply with.  Our tooling should absolutely be optimized
for reporting discrepancies against the current policy version, not for
second-guessing the correctness of a given Standards-Version declaration.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek@ubuntu.com                                     vorlon@debian.org

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