Bug#600745: Bug#654958: debian-policy: Document VCS fields.

2012-01-08 Thread James McCoy
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 09:50:32AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek writes: > > > I object to policy specifying any Vcs-* fields in a way that does not > > uniquely identify a Debian packaging branch. Running debcheckout for a > > package only to then have to guess at random which of

Bug#600745: Bug#654958: debian-policy: Document VCS fields.

2012-01-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > I object to policy specifying any Vcs-* fields in a way that does not > uniquely identify a Debian packaging branch. Running debcheckout for a > package only to then have to guess at random which of 20 branches is the > one containing the packaging I care about[1] is non

Bug#600745: Bug#654958: debian-policy: Document VCS fields.

2012-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 08:46:47AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I wonder if something like > > Vcs-Git: git://git.eyrie.org/kerberos/webauth.git squeeze > > could be made to work. > My understanding was that the debcheckout developers were not enthused > about adding a syntax that Git upst