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)
Could this remark also address the fact that in most cases,
Vcs-Git == Vcs-Browser,
and thus Vcs-Browser is irrelevant ?