On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 05:05:07PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Policy §5.6.26 permits "-b" only in the case of Vcs-Git:
[...]
> However, Mercurial (ie. "Vcs-Hg") supports this too in its
> equivalent "hg clone" command. This change was triggered via
> #920314 in Lintian.
>
> A simple patch (also attached) might be:
>
> commit 3e66c9e470053fcc77169efa82833252971d211c
> Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
> Date: Thu Jan 24 16:55:21 2019 +0100
>
> Permit branch specifications ("-b") in Mercurial Vcs-Hg headers too, not just Vcs-Git. (Closes: #-1)
>
> diff --git a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> index 44080c9..013aae4 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> @@ -973,10 +973,11 @@ repository where the Debian source package is developed.
> - Mtn (Monotone)
> - Svn (Subversion)
>
> - In the case of Git, the value consists of a URL, optionally followed
> - by the word ``-b`` and the name of a branch in the indicated
> - repository, following the syntax of the ``git clone`` command. If no
> - branch is specified, the packaging should be on the default branch.
> + In the case of Git and Mercurial, the value consists of a URL,
> + optionally followed by the word ``-b`` and the name of a branch in
> + the indicated repository, following the syntax of the ``git clone``
> + or ``hg clone`` command. If no branch is specified, the packaging
> + should be on the default branch.
seconded.
> Thank you for maintaining Policy.
seconded too! :)
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tschüß,
Holger
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