Re: Vcs-* and Other Fields
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:49:17PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:20:51 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > As far as branches are concerned, the default branch should point to
> > > the debian packaging branch and that's it.
> > And how do you do that, when the debian and upstream repos are the same?
> > That seems to be a fairly arbitrary limitation.
> It depends on the Vcs, bzr URL include the branch for instance.
> In the case of git, I don't have any nice answer. But you can always setup
> a mirror on git.debian.org where HEAD points to the right branch.
How about fixing the URI spec for the Vcs-Git field to support branch
specifications? This really seems like the obvious thing to do, even if git
itself won't interpret the URI extension directly.
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