Hi, On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 12:36:49 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > The following patch has been reworked with additional > discussion on the mailing list. It supersedes are previous patches, and > incorporates material from everything earlier in the bug report.
I'm attaching a patch on top of Manoj's, which documents the field w/o the XS- prefix. Those fields are now supported in dpkg since 1.14.6. regards, guillem
Index: developers-reference.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/debian-doc/ddp/manuals.sgml/developers-reference/developers-reference.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.334 diff -u -r1.334 developers-reference.sgml --- developers-reference.sgml 4 Aug 2007 17:33:46 -0000 1.334 +++ developers-reference.sgml 4 Oct 2007 01:30:44 -0000 @@ -4013,7 +4013,7 @@ <p> There are additional fields for the location of the Version Control System in <file>debian/control</file>. - <sect2><heading>XS-Vcs-Browser</heading> + <sect2><heading>Vcs-Browser</heading> <p> Value of this field should be a <tt>http://</tt> URL pointing to a web-browsable copy of the Version Control System repository used to @@ -4023,7 +4023,7 @@ browse the latest work done on the package (e.g. when looking for the patch fixing a bug tagged as <tt>pending</tt> in the bug tracking system). - <sect2><heading>XS-Vcs-*</heading> + <sect2><heading>Vcs-*</heading> <p> Value of this field should be a string identifying unequivocally the location of the Version Control System repository used to maintain the @@ -4050,14 +4050,14 @@ repository of the <package>vim</package> package is shown. Note how the URL is in the <tt>svn://</tt> scheme (instead of <tt>svn+ssh://</tt>) and how it points to the <file>trunk/</file> branch. The use of the -<tt>XS-Vcs-Browser</tt> field described above is also shown. +<tt>Vcs-Browser</tt> field described above is also shown. <example> Source: vim Section: editors Priority: optional <snip> - XS-Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-vim/trunk/packages/vim - XS-Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-vim/trunk/packages/vim + Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-vim/trunk/packages/vim + Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-vim/trunk/packages/vim </example> </sect1> </sect>