Re: Vcs-* and Other Fields
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.
No objection, but it would best if it could be done in cooperation with
upstream so that "git clone <URI>" does the expected thing.
It could be for example: git://git.debian.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git#stable
I welcome anyone to take this up with git's upstream. Otherwise we have to
structure the field to be more than a simple URI and tools like
http://svnbuildstat.debian.net would be broken (or need to be adapted).
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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