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Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields



On 26/01/2008, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> About these new Vcs-* fields in debian/control: it's not clear to me
> where the URLs should be pointing at. Are they meant to point to the
> upstream VCS where the actual development happens, so that users can
> checkout the upstream trunk (?) directory easily? Or should the Vcs-*
> URLs point to the Debian _metadata_ which is maintained by the
> package's official Debian maintainer? (Basically by 'metadata' I mean
> the 'debian' directory.)

See for yourself:
| $ PAGER=cat man debcheckout | grep -A1 ^NAME
| NAME
|        debcheckout - checkout the development repository of a Debian package

Cheers,

-- 
Cyril Brulebois

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