Re: Vcs-* and Other Fields

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 04:22:48PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i.yu@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I don't really think that each version control system should have its
> > own field, like Vcs-Mtn, Vcs-Svn, Vcs-Git etc, because it's simply not
> > very future proof in my opinion.
> 
> What's the alternative?

This one is easy:

Vcs: git:http://git.debian.org/...
Vcs: svn:http://svn.debian.org/...

(This means that dpkg does not have to be updated for each new VCS).

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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