Re: Vcs-* and Other Fields
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:33:12PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> I often have branches for:
> - unstable
> - experimental
> - stable
> - backports
> and there may be others of course. Each of these may be branched
> off the upstream stable/development branches at the appropriate
> points. This allows supporting stable/stable-security and
> current development all in the same repository. You just can't
> do that with one branch.
Correct, which is why the Vcs-Git URI syntax should be fixed to include an
optional branch name. You still don't need to be able to reference more
than one branch in a given source package, though; the unstable package
should point to the unstable branch, the experimental package to the
experimental branch, etc.
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