On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 09:09:48PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> If this is the consensus, should then Vcs-Browser point to trunk also?
> Without having given it too much thought, I would suggest not. Instead
> point it at the root of the repository.
Why? Vcs-* are meant to be in sync, with -Browser being the
human-friendly facet to inspect what is in the repo. I fail to see why
it should point elsewhere.
> Meanwhile, it could be useful to have a field pointing explicitly to
> "trunk or equivalent" and another to the repository root, to
> facilitate automation.
I think you are considering a svn-biased point of view. The notion of
having the equivalent of the source package root in VCS I believe is
more or less equivalent throughout all VCSs. On the contrary, the
notion of having trunk/ and stuff like tags/ side by side to it is
svn-specific, isn't it?
So, even for automation, I consider pointing to the source package
root (i.e. what contains debian/) to be the better minimum requirement
addressable by all VCS.
Cheers.
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