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. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
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