Hi Paul,

Thanks for the bug report.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 08:34:20AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> When I run lintian-brush on the myrepos package, it changes the Vcs-Git 
> URL from git:// to https:// even though the https:// URL does not work.
> 
> $ git ls-remote git://myrepos.branchable.com/ | head -n1
> 465479bffda390614c32994393aabea15f9f547e      HEAD
> 
> $ git ls-remote https://myrepos.branchable.com/ | head -n1
> fatal: repository 'https://myrepos.branchable.com/' not found
> 
> I suggest that lintian-brush needs to run `git ls-remote` on the new
> URL to check that it works and has a HEAD before updating the URL.
It was already meant to do this, but due to a bug it just
checked the old insecure URL twice. :-)

Commit coming up shortly to address that.

Cheers,

Jelmer

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: PGP signature

Reply via email to