Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:31:04AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > 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.
To make sure I'm not missunderstood: What you call polemic was not
addressed at alioth admins. It was rather that lintian checks something
that sounds useless to me and I wonder why we are doing this.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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