Re: New GitLab-Salsa service and Debian-Science Team
On Monday, 8 January 2018 09:30:10 AEDT Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> 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.”
*sigh*
Given that only half of the packages in the archive get uploaded in any given
release cycle, the proposal is to needlessly upload the other half. Sounds
like fun.
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Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stuart@nanonanonano.net
Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stuart@debian.org
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