Hi! On 19.08.20 19:28, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Wed 19 Aug 2020 at 12:49PM +02, Ulrike Uhlig wrote: > >> For actively maintained packages I personally do not understand that >> people in 2020 develop code without using a VCS and still put out only >> tarballs. But I might be unaware of some corner cases where this is the >> only way to do it. > > AIUI there are some packages with huge assets which git can't handle. > > But not many.
Thanks for explaining! So, if I understand correctly, the Vcs field should not be mandatory, but could be recommended (in pedantic or normal mode) by lintian. - ulrike