On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 02:26:29PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I think it's about time to file mass bugs on whatever packages are left that > use version control and lack the fields.
Unfortunately this is not easy to do, as least not as "mass bug filing". Point is that it is not easy to spot which packages are actually maintained using a $VCS. I did an approximation of that crossing data coming from svnbuildstat with Vcs-* information, see http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/vcs-urls/ . But it has serious limitations: it is Svn specific and only for packages registered under svnbuildstat.debian.net. You can imagine harvesting alioth.d.o and extracting all debian/control stored in whatever $VCS you find there, but you can't be sure if this is the currently used $VCS, if there are other versions of the package versioned elsewhere, ... Plenty of room for false positives. Even lintian won't be able to help much here, as VCS-specific info are usually not even in the source package (unless you want to warn for all packages lacking a Vcs-* field, no matter what). Still, it is a good idea to start diffusing the culture of manually filing bugs against version controlled packages lacking the field. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ............... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ? /\ All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema \/ right keys at the right time
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