On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:27:33AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > 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. My reason for pointing out the lintian check was that there exists a mechanism to inform maintainers that their Vcs-* URLs aren't canonical. The description for the the tag states that the non-canonical URLs will still work due to redirections, but that it would be beneficial to update them. Nothing about that implies that one needs to upload a new package just to fix this tag. It just means that if one happens to address that in the course of a normal upload, tools using their Vcs-* URLs will be slightly more performant and less likely to have transient failures. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
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