Simon Quigley <tsimo...@debian.org> writes: > I recently had a discussion in a Lintian merge request[1] where I > submitted code solidifying existing behavior in the Ubuntu Desktop and > Lubuntu teams. As I stated there, it is common practice in those teams > (and I am sure it exists in others as well) to specify a > `XS-Debian-Vcs-Browser` and/or `XS-Debian-Vcs-Git` field to point to > Salsa.
> The rationale for this is to allow packaging changes to flow back > upstream to Debian when Ubuntu's packaging repository is in a different > location (when Ubuntu has a permanent downstream delta but continues to > rebase that delta on top of Debian's changes). > I would like to solidify this existing practice by modifying Debian > Policy, amending 5.6.26 to allow usage of <PARENT>-Vcs-Browser and > <PARENT>-Vcs-<type>. I'm not sure I understand why you want to make this change to Debian Policy. Isn't this a matter for Ubuntu policy? The new fields wouldn't be in the package in Debian (because they wouldn't be meaningful there). > I would also like to use this as an opportunity to deprecate > `Original-Maintainer` in favor of `Debian-Maintainer` and allow for > `Debian-Uploaders` as well. Similarly this seems to be entirely a question for Ubuntu (and Lintian, of course). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
