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

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 07 Aug 2020 17:14:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> > 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;
> If it would be helpful for debian-policy to ship this information directly
> in the package, that should be relatively easy to do.  Feel free to open a
> bug against debian-policy.  I'm not sure if Sean would see any problems
> that I'm not seeing, but I personally have no objection to Policy starting
> to install some machine-readable information about Policy in files in
> /usr/share/debian-policy in a documented format.

I think having the data provided by debian-policy (in the package,
and maybe-for other purposes-also on the website) would be an
excellent idea, thanks for the offer.
 
I'm waiting for Dominique's thoughts before cloning/etc. this bug.


Cheers,
gregor

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