[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.12-27-g8c2b041
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 8c2b04166e80516b293869d098f99463f726557b
Author: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Date: Sat Apr 20 22:54:52 2013 +0200
c/fields.desc: canonical URIs are based on announcement
Correction to commit 1457b7f, thanks to Bernhard R. Link.
The "vcs-field-not-canonical" URIs were based on an announcement
from the Alioth admins and not the 301 HTTP status code.
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
diff --git a/checks/fields.desc b/checks/fields.desc
index ffcd621..55dffaa 100644
--- a/checks/fields.desc
+++ b/checks/fields.desc
@@ -1010,15 +1010,14 @@ Info: The VCS-* field contains an uncanonical URI. Please update to use
and makes debcheckout work independent of the port forwarding and
redirections properly working.
.
- The definition of canoical used here is based the HTTP status code.
- For non-canonical URIs, Alioth returned <tt>301 Moved
- Permanently</tt>. The new URI provided by Alioth (in the
- <tt>Location</tt>-field) was then considered "canonical".
+ The definition of canoical used here is the URIs announced by the Alioth
+ admins (see reference).
.
Note that this check is based on a list of known URIs. Lintian did not
send a HTTP request to the URI to test this. Should the canonical URI
have changed, please file a bug against Lintian so the check can be
updated accordingly.
+Ref: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/05/msg00009.html
Tag: vcs-field-bitrotted
Severity: normal
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 52565b8..e5763a2 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ lintian (2.5.13) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
report and the patch. (Closes: #705170)
* checks/fields.desc:
+ [NT] Clarify that the "canonical URI" for Vcs fields is
- based on HTTP 301 responds codes from Alioth. Thanks to
- Torquil Sørensen for the report. (Closes: #705835)
+ based on an announcement from the Alioth admins. Thanks
+ to Torquil Sørensen for the report. (Closes: #705835)
+ [NT] Clarify in the tag description of some tags related
to "Vcs-*" fields that the tags are based on a data list
(and is not a result of a HTTP request while checking the
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