Tony Houghton <h...@realh.co.uk> writes: > 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? How can > tools, such as debcheckout, work properly if they can only fetch the > packaging or upstream code, but not both?
They should point to the packaging. debcheckout will check that out, and if that's not a buildable tree, then debian/README.source MUST describe how to build the package from that checkout. See 6.2.5[1] of the Developer's reference for more information. [1]: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-vcs -- |8] -- 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/87hb322ykc....@balabit.hu
