Hi all,
recently I started adding to my debian/control the field X-Vcs-Svn,
which value is the URL of the subversion repository containing the
working version of the package. With this mail I'm proposing to use it
in all ocaml related packages; I've a commit ready that implements the
proposal.
Example from the debian/control of the vim package:
Source: vim
<snip>
Build-Conflicts: libperl-dev (= 5.8.4-1)
XS-X-Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-vim/trunk/packages/vim
Which results in something like the following [1] for the final user:
zack@aquarium:~$ apt-cache showsrc amule | tail -n2
X-Vcs-Bzr: http://people.debian.org/~adeodato/code/packages/amule
The rationale is to let the users know where the latest development
version of packages are, quite useful for following development, knowing
where to look for bugs tagged +pending, ...
I would like to have such a field on all ocaml related packages. Given
that we have a nice repository with a standardized structure :) I also
have a commit ready implementing the changes on (almost) all our
packages. Attached you can find the compressed 'svn diff'. If noone
object to this change I will commit it in the next days.
Cheers.
[1] example from amule, since the version of vim with the above change
is not yet in the archive
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Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy
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