Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> writes: > Evgeni Golov wrote: >> We (lindi, liw and me) had just a short discussion in #-devel, that it >> would be nice to have some sort of Vcs-Upstream-* in debian/control, to >> be able to get to upstreams vcs history if it is not imported in >> debian's vcs (which is often the case when using svn-bp or git-bf with >> import-orig). [background: lindi is doing some git-copyright checks and >> it fails heavily if there is no upstream history as the debian >> maintainer is asumed to be the copyright holder for everything]
> I would instead suggest we deprecate packages not including upstream > source in their VCS. The weight of progress is against that practice; > tools have improved so there is little excuse to do it, it increasingly > violates expections and makes things harder. While I agree with this, I think the problem that they're trying to solve is getting the upstream revision history, not just a copy of the source. The Debian repository may contain only snapshots of releases imported via git-import-orig or the like, rather than the complete revision history. Having the complete revision history is definitely nice, and I've started doing that with a few upstreams that use Git, but it's a bit more complicated to get the details sorted out. If upstream is using something like Subversion or CVS, it's even more complicated, although there are some Git tools that mostly work (at least for Subversion; CVS is another matter). If upstream is using some other weird thing like bzr or Mercurial or whatnot, we're now getting into rather more effort than I'd personally want to bother with. So I can still see the point of somewhere adding a pointer to the upstream VCS repository. However, is the control file really the right place for that? I guess we don't have a better place right now, but this doesn't feel like package metadata that needs to be put into the Sources file. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipuqd2to....@windlord.stanford.edu
