Re: XS-Vcs-field
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:04:34PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:13:52 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli
> <zack@bononia.it> said:
>> My question was wheter it would be appropriate to document in the
>> devref the choices of where the URL for a given VCS should point to
>> or not?
> I think this is a good idea to have in the dev ref, if it is
> couched as a recommendation/ strong suggestion. The wording should be
> such that the two options for XS-VCS-Arch would be clearly stated:
> ,----
> | a) If your Debian package lives in a single arch category, you may
> | give the arch location for the category:
> | srivasta@debian.org--etch/foo--devo--1.0
> | b) If your package needs arch config files to compose the package
> | layout from multiple arch categories, use a grab file
> | In either case, baz get <contents of XS-VCS-Arch> should checkout the
> | latest version of your Debian package.
> `----
It seems to me that option a) will work only if the user's tla/baz
already has srivasta@debian.org--etch registered (knows a location for
it). That's rather unfortunate.
--
Lionel
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