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Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields



On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 08:58:27PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> 
> I just tried this on madwifi, and it only pulled me contents of debian/
> directory. Now I can't use that to anything, since there is no matching
> upstream sources available. I wonder if it would make sense to require
> that the Vcs- fields points to something that can actually be built. Now
> I have to go wandering where to get the matching upstream..
> 
Well, I tend to use "merge with upstream" mode on my packages, so I only
bother to keep the debian/ directory under version control.  Assuming
the package has a watch file, you can just use uscan with the
--force-download switch.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
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