Re: adding X-Vcs-Svn source field to ocaml related packages
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 02:33:16PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> 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
>> 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.
> 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.
This assumes a human is dealing with the field; I was thinking more of
a tool that would do the same as "apt-get source", but then from the
VCS repository. E.g. for security updates, etc.
--
Lionel
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