On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 02:22:40PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> This URL seems _wrong_ to me. The package will go testing, and the
_wrong_ seems a strong word to me, is a matter of choice.
> stable. If a specific branch is there, it should be the branch for
> stable, not the one for unstable. But in packages in unstable, it
> shouldn't be the branch for stable, but the trunk.
>
> The only way out of it that I see is not to list a particular branch,
> but only the repository itself.
Not in my view. A user using willing to try something more developish
can first go and try the testing version, then try the unstable version,
then try the vcs url provided in the source package. Besides, a user
willing to try something out of a vcs repository should be able to
discover by himself the branch more appropriate to her.
The point of the field is more about letting users know there *is* a
repository than pointing them to a branch that in some way matches with
the package they are looking.
Cheers.
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