Hi, On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 02:59:26PM +0200, Gregor Jasny wrote: > Hello, > > When one tries to fix a FTBFS bug a look into the upstream VCS is > often helpful. Sometimes a link to browse them is easily found on > the homepage linked from the PTS page. But often these links are > deeply buried in the linked website. > > What I'd like to see in the Debian control file are Vcs-Upstream > fields that work like their Vcs- pendents but point to the upstream > sources. These URLs would also be linked in the PTS. > > Does this sound reasonable?
We can think of 3 candidate files. #1, debian/copyright #2, debian/watch #3, debian/control (Not for me but you suggested) debian/copyright in DEP-5 form has information on the upstream source tar ball site but in human parsable format under "Source:". Requesting to add "Source-VCS:" field or something similar to debian/copyright seems most natural. debian/watch has information on the upstream source tar ball with computer parsable regular expression format. I will not oppose to add some extension of this format to support such needs, too. debian/control file has information on Debian package. (not for upstream tar ball). This is the least likely place to use for such purpose. Regards, Osamu -- 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/20120616105803.GE23133@goofy.localdomain
