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

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gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> writes:

> 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.

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.

If we did that, I would probably ship this information in YAML rather than
in the somewhat ad hoc format of Lintian's data file (which was my fault
originally).

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> - 2020-08-06 14:30 +0200
  Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2020-08-06 15:50 +0200
    Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> - 2020-08-06 16:20 +0200
      Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2020-08-06 17:20 +0200
        Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> - 2020-08-06 18:20 +0200
    Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2020-08-06 16:40 +0200
      Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> - 2020-08-06 17:00 +0200
        Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2020-08-06 17:20 +0200
          Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2020-08-07 03:00 +0200
            Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2020-08-08 02:30 +0200
              Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2020-08-08 23:50 +0200
                Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2020-08-09 20:40 +0200
                Bug#968000: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Get policy release dates in another way gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2020-08-10 00:40 +0200

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