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

[Dominique Dumont]

On Tuesday, 21 June 2022 22:40:52 CEST gregor herrmann wrote:
> > Would that work out for you?
> 
> Yup.
> I'm cc'ing dod as the Config::Model::* tsar to make sure I'm not
> missing anything.

All good. Thanks for the follow-up

> > If so: What are your requirements for such a transition? Do we have to
> > just care about Unstable and Testing or are Stable-Backports a topic,
> > too?
> 
> I believe we never backported libconfig-model-dpkg-perl. Dominique?

Not that I know of.

> So I guess we can just depend on a new enough lintian or lintian-data
> with /usr/share/lintian/data/debian-policy/latest.txt (or whatever)
> and use it, and from the lintian side you can then add a versioned
> Breaks on old libconfig-model-dpkg-perl versions still using
> private/latest-policy-version, when you remove it.

Sounds good to me.

All the best