Re: RFS: haskell-language-python/0.5.2-1
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:45PM, Iustin Pop wrote:
> On 2016-05-13 23:37:39, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 14.05.2016, 00:20 +0300 schrieb Ilias Tsitsimpis:
> > > I noticed that cabal-debian tries to set the Vcs-Browser field to
> > > point to the directory where the package is located (i.e.,
> > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-haskell/DHG_packages.git/tree/p/h
> > > askell-language-python),
> > > but I didn't change it since most of the packages use the root of the
> > > repository.
> >
> > I think the initial mass-change used the less informative version, but
> > I consider what cabal-debian does bette. Feel free to change it to the
> > better URL whenever you stumble over it.
>
> Indeed, the original version is suboptimal as it doesn't point to a
> valid tree which has debian/changelog, leading to errors from vcswatch,
> e.g. https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch?package=haskell-ekg
I don't think that the errors are caused by the Vcs-Browser field. The
information there is meant to be useful for the final user, and I
believe vcswatch does not parse this value. As an example, it also fails
for the haskell-werewolf package:
https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch?package=haskell-werewolf
Best,
Ilias
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