Package: debian-policy Version: 4.5.0.2 Severity: normal Hello,
I recently had a discussion in a Lintian merge request[1] where I submitted code solidifying existing behavior in the Ubuntu Desktop and Lubuntu teams. As I stated there, it is common practice in those teams (and I am sure it exists in others as well) to specify a `XS-Debian-Vcs-Browser` and/or `XS-Debian-Vcs-Git` field to point to Salsa. The rationale for this is to allow packaging changes to flow back upstream to Debian when Ubuntu's packaging repository is in a different location (when Ubuntu has a permanent downstream delta but continues to rebase that delta on top of Debian's changes). I would like to solidify this existing practice by modifying Debian Policy, amending 5.6.26 to allow usage of <PARENT>-Vcs-Browser and <PARENT>-Vcs-<type>. This would make it easier for derivatives to clearly specify where packaging changes should be submitted upstream. In dpkg, this can be enforced by recursively running `dpkg-vendor --query Parent` and ensuring that <PARENT> matches one of those, or in Lintian by emitting an error if that is not the case. I would also like to use this as an opportunity to deprecate `Original-Maintainer` in favor of `Debian-Maintainer` and allow for `Debian-Uploaders` as well. Thoughts? [1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/310 -- Simon Quigley tsimo...@debian.org tsimonq2 on freenode and OFTC 5C7A BEA2 0F86 3045 9CC8 C8B5 E27F 2CF8 458C 2FA4
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