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Re: New GitLab-Salsa service and Debian-Science Team



On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 06:48:56PM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote:

> Are you also thinking to change the canonical URLs for git repos in the policy 
> to point at salsa rather than anonscm? Let's not just yet. It seems premature 
> to assume that the salsa name will be canonical rather than an implementation 
> detail of the day; anonscm was, after all, supposed to be something that 
> stayed with us to save us having to change 24k source packages. It's also not 
> clear that the AliothRewriter is a permanent solution. (Perhaps Cool URLs Do 
> Change.)

It has been made clear by the Alioth/Salsa admins that anonscm.d.o is
deprecated and that the new canonical URL is salsa.d.o. See the documentation
for the anonscm URL rewriter:

 https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/AliothRewriter/blob/master/README.md

“The existence of this list should not mean that VCS control fields shouldn't
get updated with the next upload. This map is just a workaround.”

Best,

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