On Monday 04 September 2006 18:22, Eric Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:53:41PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > recently I started adding to my debian/control the field X-Vcs-Svn, > > which value is the URL of the subversion repository containing the > > working version of the package. > > [...] > > The rationale is to let the users know where the latest development > > version of packages are, quite useful for following development, knowing > > where to look for bugs tagged +pending, ... > > I don't see anything wrong with this, but couldn't we achieve the same > goal by standardizing on a debian/README.svn or equivalent file > containing the repository info? You wouldn't be able to see it with > apt-cache, but I think anyone wanting this level of information would > be likely to download the source package anyway.
You wouldn't be able to see it with apt-cache (I guess dpkg and dselect will largery ignore it too), but ara and dctrl-tools will surely catch such arbirary field names and match against their values. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
