Control: tag -1 + upstream wontfix confirmed Hi Helge,
thanks for the bug report. Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > On http://packages.qa.debian.org/dpkg if I select > »Git« I get a 404. The link points to > https://packages.qa.debian.org/d/git://anonscm.debian.org/dpkg/dpkg.git I can confirm this with 2.12-1 currently in Debian Unstable. The only situation where this really affects users seems to be with "Copy link location". I've forwarded the issue to upstream, but this won't be fixed anytime soon by upstream for the following reason (citing from Mikulas Patocka's reply to me): | That URL parsing code is very old, and hacking it could introduce | more bugs. I know there are other URL parsing flaws (for example | http:/path/file.html is not handled correctly), but they are so rare | that I leave it that way. | | If there is a possibility to pass the git URL to an external program | (for example some graphical viewer for the git repository), I could | add that possibility (similar to mailto, telnet, tn3270, mms, magnet | URLs), otherwise I'd leave it as it is. Since I don't know any interactive program which takes a git:// URL as parameter(*), I'm marking this as wontfix for now. IMHO "git clone" is not suitable for such usage. (*) I've tried gitk, git-cola, qgit and tig. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
