On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 05:24:36PM +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Policy currently describes Vcs-* headers as something optional, but stops to
> endorse a particular Vcs.
> 
> At this point, it seems uncontroversial to encourage use of Vcs-Git
> specifically here. Apart from technical arguments, it's the vcs that the
> majority of packages in the archive uses - and thus will have the better
> tooling, less of a learning curve for other contributors, etc.
> 
> There are very few holdouts of other vcses in the archive. I count 62
> (ignoring those with an alioth URL):
> 
>  * 26 on Svn
>  * 3 on Cvs
>  * 4 on Hg (2 are hg/hg-buildpackage)
>  * 39 on bzr (half of these are actually bzr and related packages, which I 
> maintain)

I do not quite understand. Surely the package need to use the VCS-* header
corresponding to the VCS used by the repository, whathever it is ? This is not
a matter of preference.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>

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