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Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files



On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 08:36:21AM +0200, Simon Kainz wrote:
> Currently (as of 2012-08-26) duck.debian.net shows me 9301 binary
> packages with URL issues, resulting from 4318 source packages.
> 
> …
> 
> There Vcs-Svn: points to
> svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-hebrew/pkg/bidiui and Vcs-Browser
> points to http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-hebrew/pkg/bidiui/
> 
> Using the Vcs-Browser link, my browser ultimately points to
> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-hebrew/pkg/bidiui/, so there
> must be some rewrite rule/vhost config/magic fairy to make this work -
> So Vcs-Browser _works!_
> 
> Using the svn cli too, i get:
> 
> skainz@zidpc9027:~$ svn info
> "svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-hebrew/pkg/bidiui"
> svn: No repository found in
> 'svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-hebrew/pkg/bidiui'
> 
> _BUT_: After changing svn://svn.debian.org/... to
> svn://anonscm.debian.org/... makes it work again:

See also <http://lintian.debian.org/tags/vcs-field-not-canonical.html>,
so maintainers should be aware of the problem.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>

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