On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 03:10:06PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > I'm a bit confused about the Vcs fields in Control files. Many projects > have the upstream code and debian packaging maintained separately and > I'm not entirely sure what you're supposed to do with the Vcs fields in > that case. Should they point to upstream or the packaging?
The Packaging[0]. > How can > tools, such as debcheckout, work properly if they can only fetch the > packaging or upstream code, but not both? In many cases, the VCS used for the debian package also contains a copy of the upstream source code whether or not upstream is using a VCS or not, in other cases: from $ man debcheckout "--source=never|auto|download-only|always Some packages only place the debian directory in version control. debcheckout can retrieve the remaining parts of the source using apt-get source and move the files into the checkout." Cheers. [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-vcs (Sorry for my English) -- Josué M. Abarca S. Vos mereces Software Libre. PGP key 4096R/70D8FB2A 2009-06-17 Huella de clave = B3ED 4984 F65A 9AE0 6511 DAF4 756B EB4B 70D8 FB2A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111021143826.GA13112@numenor.numenor
