Bug#705835: lintian: Definition of canonical URI

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2013-04-20 21:09, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2013-04-20 20:59, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
>> Package: lintian
>> Version: 2.5.12
>> Severity: minor
>>
>> The extended info about the tag vcs-field-not-canonical does not
>> define or link to a definition of "canonical Debian URI".
>>
>> It would be useful if the extended info contained a link to some
>> information about this.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Torquil Sørensen
>>
>> [...]
> 
> Fair enough.  For reference, canonical in this case is because alitoh is
> sending "301" for "non-canonical" URIs to the "canonical" one.
> [...]
> 
> The last (shown) line contains the "canonical" URI.
> 
> ~Niels
> 

Correction (Kudos to Bernhard R. Link).  The canonical URIs were based
on an announcement from the Alioth admins[1].

~Niels

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/05/msg00009.html