Re: Vcs-* and Other Fields

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:

> 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).

I'm unaware of this issue. I was under the impression that dpkg can
simply handle fields transparently if it doesn't need to do anything
with them. Why does dpkg need to be updated for each of ‘VCS-git’,
‘VCS-svn’, and so on if it doesn't actually use them?

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