Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 06 Aug 2020 15:43:02 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:

> > Attached is a script that extracts the release dates from the policy
> > changelog. It uses the network. The data will always be current.
> 
> If the source of information is Salsa, I'd rather use gitlab API to extract 
> the latest policy version from the tags with something like:
> 
> mojo get -r https://salsa.debian.org/api/v4/projects/234/repository/tags \
>   /0/name | perl -n -E '/(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/; say $1;'

The problem I see here is that dynamically fetching the policy
version can't work during package builds / for tests; having the
version in a file was the big advantage of using the lintian data.

But yeah, at runtime it should be ok.

Cheers,
gregor

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