On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:12:51PM +0300, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > It would be really nice if, in case the Vcs-* header is missing, > debcheckout would offer the user the possibility to get the source > package directly from the archive via "apt-get source package".
I prefer rather not doing this for various reasons. The main one is "social", as debcheckout was also meant as a way to diffuse the culture of using Vcs-* fields. Transparently falling back to apt-get will defeat this purpose. Similarly, it will make less evident, no matter how you warn, the information/pointers about Vcs-* documentation. I suggest either just printing out the alternative (but are there cases of people knowing about debcheckout but not apt-get source?), maybe printing out something like "you can do apt-get source ...". Alternatively we can provide a fallback switch that it is not the default and when given enables transparent fallback to apt-get. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time
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