On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 04:18:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > As far as using this field for svn repos, I assume that it should be to > an anonymous-friendly version of the repo if possible (svn:// not > svn+ssh://). Should it link to the trunk, rather than the head of the > repo? I think so and that's how your example gives it.
Totally agreed, that's precisely my examples have svn://. Still, the drawback of this is that with svn you can just right click on a terminal and "open link", but I'm convinced this is a flaw in our browsing tool, I feel the svn:// url scheme is the right one for that. > As to it being an XS- field, dpkg-dev doesn't warn at all about building > packages with such a field (unlike an XB- field), so I don't really > care, although it seems it would be better to lose the XS- if possible. Note that we were more discussing about losing the X- part (for the records, a sample field is "XS-X-Vcs-Svn"), which in my mind is the part representing the non officialness of the field. I don't know at all if it's possible to remove the XS- part. I don't really care on the PTS side, but I suspect it wont get in the Sources file without the XS- prefix. Am I wrong? Request for help on this ... > Have you thought at all about automated systems that could be built on > top of this? Things like a repo browser that can browse (and find > recent changes in) all packages, or mirrors of repos that arn't hosted > at svn.debian.org, or what have you. I haven't yet thought about going that far, but they are all ideas which are whetting my appetite :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. -!-
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