Re: Friendly reminder: the Vcs-Browser field is now official

[Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de>]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:33:59AM +0000, Paul Cager wrote:
> Varun Hiremath wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> > 
> > On Tue, 30 Oct, 2007 at 08:05:21AM +0100, Michael Koch wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:09:39AM +0000, Paul Cager wrote:
> >>> Regarding the email below, how about an automated mass update of the
> >>> pkg-java trunk to convert the old XS-Vcs entries into new Vcs ones? Or
> >>> possibly even add in missing ones. That way packages would be "fixed"
> >>> when they are next uploaded.
> >> And fix the packages with the wrong field name (Browser vs. Browse).
> >>
> >>> Terrible idea?
> >> No. I think this is very good testcase for more mass changes in
> >> pkg-java. One issue that might come up is how to track which packages in
> >> SVN have changes not in the Debian archive yet. How can we
> >> (automatically) check for this?
> > 
> > Do you know about svnbuildstat.d.o? Look at these pages:
> > 
> > http://svnbuildstat.debian.net/packages/list/17
> > http://svnbuildstat.debian.net/packages/list/konqueror@gmx.de
> > 
> > Regards
> > Varun
> > 
> 
> I'm just wondering how reliable that page is. I'll check it more
> thoroughly tonight, but it looks like there are a few false positives on
> http://svnbuildstat.debian.net/packages/list/paul-debian@home.paulcager.org
> 
> The other automatic checks I would like to see are:
> 
>   * is the source in the Debian archive *newer* than svn trunk? (i.e. we
> have forgotten to commit to SVN).
> 
>   * have we forgotten to tag a release?
> 
> I've not investigated if svnbuildstat.d.n provides this information.

To not forgot a more valid case: NMUs by non-team-members.


Cheers,
Michael