On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 02:58:20PM -0500, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > >> I'm fixing the packaging of guile-cairo. I get the following warnings and > >> notes related to the VCS fields: vcs-obsolete-in-debian-infrastructure, > >> vcs-field-not-canonical, and vcs-field-uses-insecure-uri. Shall I ignore > >> these or remove the VCS fields from debian/control? > > If you use a VCS you should put the VCS info into these fields, otherwise > > you should remove them. I don't see a reason to ignore the warnings. > > May I expand this a bit a say "otherwise, you should put your package on > Salsa and update the fields accordingly"? There are fewer things more > frustrating than a package that doesn't use a VCS. Indeed, but I'm not sure what we think of putting unreleased packages to Salsa. OTOH one can always put them into their private namespace. ALso, if this is a package that existed only on Alioth and was never migrated, or if it WAS migrated, it's even more complicated...
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