On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 01:44:10PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 04:22:48PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > I don't really think that each version control system should have its > > > own field, like Vcs-Mtn, Vcs-Svn, Vcs-Git etc, because it's simply not > > > very future proof in my opinion. > > > > What's the alternative? > > This one is easy: > > Vcs: git:http://git.debian.org/... > Vcs: svn:http://svn.debian.org/... > > (This means that dpkg does not have to be updated for each new VCS).
This, or some similar scheme, would certainly be more future proof. One additional thing I'd like to raise is the need for additional metadata to make better use of the VCS repository: - upstream branch - debian branch - possibly additional branches e.g. upstream stable/development branches, and also debian stable/unstable/experimental branches One current annoyance with tools such as git-buildpackage is the need to manually specify options such as the upstream and debian branches unless you stick to the defaults, as well as if tools such as pristine-tar are being used. If this information was present in the control file, and I feel this is a natural place for such information, this would make package maintenance and building within a VCS rather less cumbersome, and could also allow for seamless integration with e.g. dpkg-buildpackage rather than requiring a separate tool for each VCS out there, at least for building. Maybe a set of Vcs*: tags would allow such uses? Vcs: git Vcs-Uri: git://git.debian.org/foo/bar Vcs-Debian: debian/unstable Vcs-Upstream: stable Vcs-Upstream-Stable: stable Vcs-Upstream-Unstable: master There may be better ways of representing things, these are just examples of the information which would be useful. Regular expressions to match tags used for upstream and debian releases would also be useful. There are other potential uses for having this additional information: automated rebasing of patches against new releases, and against the upstream development branch for forwarding upstream. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
