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Bug#1100539: Is Lintian maintained maintained in a backwards incompatible way? Should stable releases use old Lintian versions?

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Hello,

Sorry for the delay in my response.

Lintian is maintained in a backward incompatible way, in the sense that 
the latest version published in unstable can't be used to verify 
packages that are to be uploaded in stable.

That's because, as far as I understand, Policy changes are not to be 
applied retroactively to the current stable (or oldstable) releases.

This means packages that are to be uploaded to stable should use the 
latest Lintian version in stable. If there's a bug with that version, a 
fix will be issued via the stable proposed-updates mechanism, for example:

https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/9d4daee3a72db19a4825a3a93077ec9f71205136

(I've poked Maytham wrt why this isn't in the archive yet :P).

Hope this answers your question?

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Bug#1100539: Is Lintian maintained maintained in a backwards incompatible way? Should stable releases use old Lintian versions? Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> - 2025-04-16 17:40 +0200
  Bug#1100539: Is Lintian maintained maintained in a backwards incompatible way? Should stable releases use old Lintian versions? Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org> - 2025-04-16 18:30 +0200

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