1 Check-Script: standards-version
2 Author: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
6 Info: This script checks if a source package contains a valid
7 Standards-Version field.
8 Needs-Info: debfiles, source-control-file
10 Tag: no-standards-version-field
14 Info: The source package does not have a Standards-Version control field.
15 Please update your package to latest Policy and set this control field
18 Tag: invalid-standards-version
21 Info: The source package refers to a Standards-Version which never
22 existed. Please update your package to latest Policy and set this
23 control field appropriately.
25 Tag: newer-standards-version
28 Info: The source package refers to a Standards-Version which is
29 newer than the highest one lintian is programmed to check. If the source
30 package is correct, then please upgrade lintian to the newest version.
31 (If there is no newer lintian version, then please bug &maint; to make
34 Tag: ancient-standards-version
37 Info: The source package refers to a Standards-Version that has been
38 obsolete for more than two years. Please update your package to latest
39 Policy and set this control field appropriately.
41 If the package is already compliant with the current standards, you don't
42 have to re-upload the package just to adjust the Standards-Version
43 control field. However, please remember to update this field next time
44 you upload the package.
46 See <tt>/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz</tt> in
47 the debian-policy package for a summary of changes in newer versions of
50 Tag: out-of-date-standards-version
53 Info: The source package refers to a Standards-Version older than the one
54 that was current at the time the package was created (according to the
55 timestamp of the latest <tt>debian/changelog</tt> entry). Please
56 consider updating the package to current Policy and setting this control
59 If the package is already compliant with the current standards, you don't
60 have to re-upload the package just to adjust the Standards-Version
61 control field. However, please remember to update this field next time
62 you upload the package.
64 See <tt>/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz</tt> in
65 the debian-policy package for a summary of changes in newer versions of
68 Tag: timewarp-standards-version
71 Info: The source package refers to a Standards-Version that was released
72 after the date of the most recent <tt>debian/changelog</tt> entry.
73 Perhaps you forgot to update the timestamp in <tt>debian/changelog</tt>
74 before building the package?