#1124930 lintian: Possible inaccuracy in description of tag debug-symbol-migration-possibly-complete

#1124930#5
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2026-01-07 12:46:22 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

The description of the tag debug-symbol-migration-possibly-complete
contains the following paragraph:

“However, if the command was added later (and/or the package was not
included in stretch) please wait until it has been included in a stable
release before removing it.”

I could be mistaken, but it appears that the reference to the stretch
distribution is outdated. This reference was certainly correct when the
tag was introduced in commit 56b93a17 [1], on May 10 2018. At that time,
buster, the successor of stretch, had not yet been released.

Nowadays, the reference to stretch makes little sense, I think.

Best,

Rafael Laboissière

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/56b93a175bb0884bd971aa588aa2acadd932a821