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Re: Vcs-* and Other Fields



Hi!

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:02:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I don't remember if there's a bug filed asking for inclusion of the
> Vcs-* fields already.  If there isn't and you feel like tracking this
> down, a bug that has a pointer to the specification would be great, or a
> proposed specification.  For Lintian, we had trouble finding
> documentation for what the contents should be for some cases,
> particularly Vcs-Mtn.

Most of the spec was drafted in [0] and [1], there's probably related
discussions in debian-devel and debian-policy from around that time, but
I've not looked them up. The fields added to dpkg-dev were the ones
specified in [0].

regards,
guillem

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/391023
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/393462


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