Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.22.21 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]>
The fields are currently, like all the other Vcs-* fields, specified to take (only) an “url” parameter. For VCS-git, this is not entirely correct, the spec should be: "VCS-git:" wsp url [wsp "-b" wsp branchname] This is well-established and has been disseminated right around the time those VCS-* headers were introduced. For VCS-CVS, we need two(!) items instead. CVS repository coordinates are not defined, nor definable, by an URL, as they are comprised of two independent URL-like entities, the path to the repository and the module within that. For example, to obtain the upstream sources for mksh, you can do: cvs -Rqd [email protected]:/cvs co -PA src/bin/mksh Here, the RCS ,v files are placed in /cvs/src/bin/mksh/ on the server. However, we cannot just say, for example, VCS-CVS: [email protected]:/cvs/src/bin/mksh # wrong … because the split between the CVS repository and the module within the repository cannot be determined from just that. It also cannot be determined server-side, as each repository is defined by having a CVSROOT/ subdirectory, but you can nest them (and I’ve seen people do that, and I’ve done that for my cvs2git pseudo-repos as well), and between… cvs -Rqd [email protected]:/repo co subrepo/dir/file # vs. cvs -Rqd [email protected]:/repo/subrepo co dir/file … you get different content (the RCS IDs will differ), so the distinction must be observed. With CVS rising in importance due to git going to require a port of LLVM and Rust to be used, excluding most hobby OSes, I would like this spec bug to be fixed so lintian stops complaining. I have been naïvely (relying only on the aforementioned announcement) using… "VCS-CVS:" wsp repopath wsp modulepath … for this purpose, but am willing to work together to find a better spec if this doesn’t suit. (Spaces within directory names are going to break lots, so I hope people stay off them.) Herein, repopath is anything that fulfills *(cvs)Repository:: (i.e. works as argument to the cvs -d global option), and modulepath is a relative filesystem construct.
