As far as using this field for svn repos, I assume that it should be to an anonymous-friendly version of the repo if possible (svn:// not svn+ssh://). Should it link to the trunk, rather than the head of the repo? I think so and that's how your example gives it. As to it being an XS- field, dpkg-dev doesn't warn at all about building packages with such a field (unlike an XB- field), so I don't really care, although it seems it would be better to lose the XS- if possible. Very good idea on this, I'll be adding it to all my packages, and to all of d-i, if someone else doesn't do it first. Have you thought at all about automated systems that could be built on top of this? Things like a repo browser that can browse (and find recent changes in) all packages, or mirrors of repos that arn't hosted at svn.debian.org, or what have you. -- see shy jo
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