Re: Vcs-CVS, again
Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> writes:
> Lintian gives me an informative message about:
> Vcs-CVS: :ext:_anoncvs@anoncvs.mirbsd.org:/cvs contrib/hosted/tg/deb/mksh
> As far as I can see, it “chokes” on the :ext: (since :pserver: ought to
> have died long ago…)
> I think I reported that already, some time ago. Any news from this
> front?
Hi Thorsten,
I don't see any bug open about this. Did I just miss it? If not, in the
future could you please file a bug if you run into a false positive like
this? I work on Lintian pretty much entirely from the BTS, so if it isn't
a bug, it tends to fall off my radar.
> I’m asking because a DD asked why I override the lintian warning I get
> with the above line and similar ones in other packages. He even
> suggested I move to SVN… *shudder*
Yeah, why would you go to Subversion when you could just go straight to
Git? :)
> You’d almost certainly just have to change %VCS_RECOMMENDED_URIS (the
> cvs entry) to change :pserver: to :(ext|pserver): I’d say.
Done for the next release, although I limited it to :ext: URLs that use a
username of anoncvs or _anoncvs and therefore probably don't require
authentication.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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