control: reassign -1 devscripts
control: retitle -1 Script to automatically create upstream git remote

Hello,

On Mon, Jun 18 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Sean writes:
>> dgit could check the DEP-12 metadata first, and fall back to looking
>> at the Source: field in d/copyright.  It would probably need to
>> verify that the URI in either of these fields is actually a git
>> remote.
>
> The problem with this is that it might cause dgit clone to fail, or be
> unreasonably slow, just because the upstream is down (or has rotted).
> It's weird that DEP-12 has Repository but not a way to specify the
> VCS.

Good point.

> Maybe devscripts should have a utility to create this remote ?

Yes.  Reassigning.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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