Re: best practices for security branches in pkg-java SVN repo

[tony mancill <tony@mancill.com>]

On 02/12/2011 02:24 PM, Giovanni Mascellani wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On 12/02/2011 19:02, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
>>   A question: do you think it is a good idea to update the
>> debian/control Vcs fields to point to the branch directory ? My
>> opinion is that it should be, so that the control file of the package
>> uploaded to squeeze-security corresponds to the place where
>> development of that particular branch actually occurs.
> 
> +1

I agree. I've done this for tomcat6 and updated the JavaSvn page.
(Unfortunately the default svn-buildpackage --svn-tag doesn't do the right thing
automatically, so the tag has to be created explicitly.)

Thanks,
tony