Re: adding X-Vcs-Svn source field to ocaml related packages

[George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net>]

On Monday 04 September 2006 18:43, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 05:28:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > That said, i find the SVN field name a bit obscure, why was there not a
> > more straingthforward one (X-SVN or something such) chosen ?
>
> Because the mentioned one accounts for different versioning systems as
> well, Dato's packages for instance use bzr:
>
>   zack@aquarium:~$ apt-cache showsrc amule | tail -n2
>   X-Vcs-Bzr: http://people.debian.org/~adeodato/code/packages/amule

Nah. I forgot about showsrc ;-)

> Vcs stands for "versioning control system"; followed by a tag for the
> actual system in use ("svn" for us, "bzr", "darcs", ...); followed by
> the actual value: an URL.

Then it seems to be a valuable piece of information to provide, because 
somethimes users (secutiry or qa teams) might want to look at your VCS repo. 
I'll probably start adding such a field to my packages.

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