[pkg-bacula-devel] New lintian warnings

Carsten Leonhardt leo at debian.org
Sun Jan 27 14:04:02 GMT 2019


Hi Sven,

> Checking the current git HEAD with lintian shows a new warning:
>
> X: bacula-common: maintainer-script-supports-ancient-package-version postinst:20 9.0.7+dfsg-2

> N:    Please remove the code/check for this version as such upgrades (etc.)
> N:    are unsupported.

> Given that stable has 7.4.4 (lower than 9.0.7) and oldstable had 5.2.6 I 
> think the check here has a bug.

Yes, but isn't X = experimental?

Also I don't see why one should be discouraged from supporting upgrades
from very old versions, if there's no cost attached.

 - Carsten



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