Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files
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Am 08/28/13 10:31, schrieb Alexander Wirt:
> Andreas Tille schrieb am Wednesday, den 28. August 2013:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 07:55:44AM -0400, James McCoy wrote:
>>>> _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.
>>
>> IMHO this is the wrong attitude. While I tend to respect lintian
>> issues of severity info you can not at all expect maintainers to
>> just seek long standing bug free packages for such things and
>> upload packages just because of this.
>>
>> And back to this actual issue: I *totally* fail to see in how
>> far a package becomes a better user / developer experience just
>> because I do
>>
>> g/^Vcs/s/svn/anonscm/
>>
>> IMHO requiring this from maintainers is a singularity in my 15
>> years Debian experience where a change is totally unmotivated and
>> just drains developer time for no use at all.
> Just for the record, this was a bug and is now fixed on alioth.
>
> svn ls svn://svn.debian.org/adduser branches/ tags/ trunk/
>
> so keep your polemic at home and thank buxy (who brought this topic
> up on #alioth) and sgran that fixed it.
>
> Alex
>
Hi,
1st: Thanks for fixing this, reduces the number of packages with url
issues by ~2.5 k.
2nd: Sorry, I didn't want to make someone annoyed by bringing this
issue to debian-qa, but it somehow seemed like a qa thing to me, and
not something which resulted from changes on alioth. Sorry for that.
Regards,
Simon
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