Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-02-26 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Sunday, 26 February 2023 17:59:52 CET Bill Allombert wrote: > > During the last weeks I had a look at the Vcs situation in Debian. > > > > For the allowed systems the situation in unstable is the following: > > ... > > svn is used by ~130 packages, many of which point to bad URLs. > > > > We c

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-02-26 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 26 Feb 2023 at 02:24PM +01, Bastian Germann wrote: > Hi! > > During the last weeks I had a look at the Vcs situation in Debian. Currently, > there are eight possible systems allowed and one might specify several of > them for > one package. No package makes use of several Vcs refer

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-02-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 02:24:26PM +0100, Bastian Germann wrote: > Hi! > > During the last weeks I had a look at the Vcs situation in Debian. Currently, > there are eight possible systems allowed and one might specify several of > them for > one package. No package makes use of several Vcs refere

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-02-26 Thread Bastian Germann
Am 26.02.23 um 17:26 schrieb Adrian Bunk: I do not get your point what we would gain if the cvsd maintainer drops the Vcs-Cvs reference while continuing to maintain the package in cvs. That would be a prerequisite to drop Vcs-Cvs support. It is the last package that points to a working CVS URL.

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-02-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 02:24:26PM +0100, Bastian Germann wrote: > Hi! > > During the last weeks I had a look at the Vcs situation in Debian. Currently, > there are eight possible systems allowed and one might specify several of > them for > one package. No package makes use of several Vcs refere

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-02-26 Thread Brian Thompson
On Sun, 2023-02-26 at 14:24 +0100, Bastian Germann wrote: > Hi! > > During the last weeks I had a look at the Vcs situation in Debian. Currently, > there are eight possible systems allowed and one might specify several of them > for > one package. No package makes use of several Vcs references and

Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-02-26 Thread Bastian Germann
Hi! During the last weeks I had a look at the Vcs situation in Debian. Currently, there are eight possible systems allowed and one might specify several of them for one package. No package makes use of several Vcs references and frankly I do not see why this was supported in the first place. Fo