On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:21:06PM +0300, Damian Minkov wrote: > Hi, > > it is the upstream which contains the debian packaging. We commit > everything in resources/install/debian. > What's the point of this field if its not the upstream? What should we > put there? > I saw there is a bug report about missing vcs fields and I've added > them with values pointing to the repository containing the sources we > are currently packaging.
It seems to contain instruction on how to generate the source package from that repository, including having to do a few git clone / svn checkouts. The Vcs-* fields should point to the sources like it's in Debian so that people working on Debian can make changes to it. This means among other things that there is a "debian" directory, instead of a resources/install/debian. The full sources shouldn't even be there, it could be that the upstream sources are gotten from the .orig.tar.gz file. Or it might have the upstream sources too, but most likely not contain the full upstream history, just those things that are uploaded to Debian. Typically the "debian" dir is not maintained upstream, but in it's own repository like the one in collab-maint. You seem to have a different workflow. And the Vcs-* fields you added will not result in people getting what they expect to find. (I don't know if I explained myself good, but I hope you understand what I mean.) Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
