Re: Control file Vcs fields
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 03:10:06PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:
> I'm a bit confused about the Vcs fields in Control files. Many projects
> have the upstream code and debian packaging maintained separately and
> I'm not entirely sure what you're supposed to do with the Vcs fields in
> that case. Should they point to upstream or the packaging?
The Packaging[0].
> How can
> tools, such as debcheckout, work properly if they can only fetch the
> packaging or upstream code, but not both?
In many cases, the VCS used for the debian package also contains a
copy of the upstream source code whether or not upstream is
using a VCS or not, in other cases:
from $ man debcheckout
"--source=never|auto|download-only|always
Some packages only place the debian directory in version control.
debcheckout can retrieve the remaining parts of the source using
apt-get source and move the files into the checkout."
Cheers.
[0] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-vcs
(Sorry for my English)
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