Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@madism.org> writes: > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 05:04:56PM +0000, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Sat, 17 May 2008 15:24:13 +0200, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> said: >> >> >> > (publishing my branch in a gitweb) isn't normalized, and won't >> > probably ever be, or not under this form. >> >> Don't you think that Vcs-Browse and Vcs-$SCN headers are >> normalized ways for telling end users where to get the development >> sources from? > > For devel sources yes. Sadly, this won't give you the straight URL to > what upstream are interested in. The syntax for the fields also does not currently let you specify a branch or tag, it's just the whole repo. Personally, I'd like it to allow specification of the branch/tag used to produce the specific release of the package in Sources.gz (or better, the latest development on that branch). For example: Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/buildd-tools/schroot This gives you the master branch, but the Debian packages are actually on the schroot-1.2 stable release branch. For people who want to hack on what's actually in use in Debian testing/unstable right now, this is the wrong branch. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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