On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 05:24:36PM +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > > Policy currently describes Vcs-* headers as something optional, but stops to > endorse a particular Vcs. > > At this point, it seems uncontroversial to encourage use of Vcs-Git > specifically here. Apart from technical arguments, it's the vcs that the > majority of packages in the archive uses - and thus will have the better > tooling, less of a learning curve for other contributors, etc. > > There are very few holdouts of other vcses in the archive. I count 62 > (ignoring those with an alioth URL): > > * 26 on Svn > * 3 on Cvs > * 4 on Hg (2 are hg/hg-buildpackage) > * 39 on bzr (half of these are actually bzr and related packages, which I > maintain)
I do not quite understand. Surely the package need to use the VCS-* header corresponding to the VCS used by the repository, whathever it is ? This is not a matter of preference. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
