Re: Why Vcs-* fields are not at least recommended ?

[Ulrike Uhlig <ulrike@debian.org>]

Hi!

On 19.08.20 19:28, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Wed 19 Aug 2020 at 12:49PM +02, Ulrike Uhlig wrote:
> 
>> For actively maintained packages I personally do not understand that
>> people in 2020 develop code without using a VCS and still put out only
>> tarballs. But I might be unaware of some corner cases where this is the
>> only way to do it.
> 
> AIUI there are some packages with huge assets which git can't handle.
> 
> But not many.

Thanks for explaining! So, if I understand correctly, the Vcs field
should not be mandatory, but could be recommended (in pedantic or normal
mode) by lintian.

 - ulrike