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

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 06 Aug 2020 17:09:13 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:

> On jeudi 6 août 2020 16:56:17 CEST you wrote:
> > I figured. How about depending on debian-policy and using the
> > information in its changelog?
> Actually, I could use rmadison to get the latest version of debian-policy 
> without installing this package (like rmadison is used to get the version of 
> packages in unstable and older releases)

Right, except that this also doesn't work at build time.
But if we skip the test phase that would be ok.

What I'm wondering is:
- depending on debian-policy would be another dependency, and the debian-policy
  only installs files to /usr/share/doc which is not guaranteed to
  exist; and there's also no easily parsable file there;
- will lintian continue to ship
  /usr/share/lintian/data/standards-version/release-dates ? Then we
  could still parse it ourselves without the Lintian perl modules;
- even if lintian ships the perl modules in a private path, it would
  be possible to use it; if this makes sense depends on the reason
  why lintian moves the files, which I haven't fully understood yet
  (my impression is more that this has to do with lintian internales
  like tests that with the question if the modules should be uses by
  others).

But yeah, maybe just using rmadison or whatever other online method
to get the lates S-V is easier than to rely on lintian.


Cheers,
gregor

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