[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1



On su, 2011-01-09 at 15:33 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Well, the point of the revision dependent url was to avoid the url
> stopping to refer to the actual format used in the file. If you make
> that a stable url that may change content, the Format: field becomes
> pretty much useless.

See http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/08/msg00269.html -- the
stable url will point to an unchanging version of the spec, without
having to fiddle with svn revision numbers or other horrors.

-- 
Blog/wiki/website hosting with ikiwiki (free for free software):
http://www.branchable.com/


Reply to: