On 2015-08-16 13:43, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Christian Kastner <c...@debian.org>, 2015-08-15, 23:57: >>>> The Vcs-Git URL should use the git:// protocol specifier, and you >>>> could add a Vcs-Browser URL pointing to the github package, like so: >>>> >>>> -Vcs-Git: https://github.com/asciiprod/yadifa.git >>>> +Vcs-Git: git://github.com/asciiprod/yadifa.git >>> >>> The original URL is clone'able by git, too. >>> So what's wrong with using HTTPS in Vcs-Git? >> >> lintian complained about vcs-field-not-canonical, IIRC > > I don't think it did. vcs-field-not-canonical, as currently implemented, > is only about Alioth URLs.
I could have sworn that my initial comment was triggered by a lintian warning, but trying to produce anything else with an older version of lintian yielded nothing either. Therefore, I'm definitely misremembering something, and looking at the policy, I see no such restriction, so my initial comment was wrong.
