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Re: XS-X-Vcs-XXX field not (yet) announced



On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 09:02:31PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> My doubt was on the line: "who am I to suggest a non X- field to be
> added to Sources files"?  If no one has objections on the field
> XS-Vcs-XXX-Url I will add support for it and document its usage (without
> the "X-".
> 
> So, poll time:
> 
> does anyone see a problem about recommending a XS-Vcs-XXX-Url field with
> semantics "URL pointing to an XXX version control repository", intended
> to be informative for users about where to find latest source version of
> a given package?

I would also like to raise a question: does it make any sense to be able
to list two URLs, one for the Debian branch and one for the upstream
branch?

-- John



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