On 2016-05-24 18:24:29, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:23AM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am Dienstag, den 24.05.2016, 00:18 +0200 schrieb Iustin Pop: > > > While we have other tools to check consistency, this inconsistency (and > > > the associated vcwatch errors) still bother me. Did anyone open a bug or > > > discussion somewhere (e.g. -devel) about extending Vcs-* to support > > > shared repositories (e.g. with custom subdirs for the package instead of > > > hardcoded `/')? > > > > no, nobody has yet started to scratch that itch. If you want to, please > > do!
Will do! > I couldn't find anything related, neither on the mailing lists nor the > bug reports. Then again, I am not aware of any other team that maintains > their packages under one repo, so maybe that explains why nobody has > requested such a feature yet. Interesting, I thought I remembered at least some other team doing this, maybe I'm wrong. > The Vcs-Git field can optionally specify the branch to be used in the > indicated repository[1]. Maybe it can be extended to also specify the > subdirectory where the 'debian/changelog' is located, though this may > require changing the Debian policy. Yes, that's the plan. > If you would like, I can open a bug report against vcswatch, and see > were it goes from there. A bug against vcswatch is, IMHO, potentially not the best place to do it. I was planning to send an email to -devel to see if anybody has strong feelings one way or another, and wanted to check first if anybody did it. regards, iustin
