duck.debian.net shows: lintian and alioth disagree

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org>]

Hi *,

I’ve just saw DUCK reporting an issue with mediawiki (and, following
a quick grep, most of the packages using svn on Alioth):

(Note: word-wrapped so the GMane Loom would accept this newspost.)

tglase@tglase:~ $ svn ls svn://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-mediawiki/
svn: E210005: Unable to connect to a repository at URL \
'svn://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-mediawiki'
svn: E210005: No repository found in 'svn://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-
mediawiki'
1|tglase@tglase:~ $ svn ls svn://anonscm.debian.org/svn/pkg-mediawiki/
geshi/
mediawiki/
mediawiki-extensions/
unversioned/
wikidiff2/

Lintian suggests to change the latter to the former, though.

According to DUCK, this worked on 2014-03-23 and broke in between
2014-03-23 and 2014-03-27 on which it first did not work (there
was no check in between).

Can we haz stable VCS URIs please? I can’t remember how often
I had to change the VCS-* fields of Alioth-hosted packages in
the last couple of years…

Thanks,
//mirabilos