Re: About canonical Vcs fields

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On Thursday, March 14, 2013 05:56:47 PM Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We discussed new lintian vcs-field-not-canonical check in IRC last week,
> which affects *lots* of packages in our SVN (see [¹]). Now people are
> recommended to use `svn://anonscm.debian.org/*` URIs instead of
> `svn://svn.debian.org/*`, but it seems that it's not what most packages
> use at the moment.
> 
> So let's do a quick poll:
> 
> [1a] I used anonscm.debian.org, and like it.
> [1b] I used svn.debian.org, but like the new URIs and will switch.
> 
> [2a] I used svn.debian.org, don't like the new URIs but I don't mind
> switching. [2b] I used svn.debian.org, and will continue to use it, lintian
> should allow that. [2c] I used anonscm.debian.org, but don't like it.
> 
> (I hope I've covered all options, let me know if there is something not
> listed above. If you had different packages that used different URIs,
> vote for the variant that applies to the biggest part of your packages.)
> 
> If the second group will win, we should consider asking lintian
> developers to remove that check (at least partially, i.e. allow both
> options but not allow everything else).
> 
> My own vote: [2a].
> 
> [¹]: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/vcs-field-not-canonical.html

3.  Don't care to invest any thought or time in the question.

Scott K