On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:25:14PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> When migrating from a VCS to another, users are faced with the
> annoying drawback that stable releases can have out of date
> information wrt Vcs-* fields. In that case, debcheckout is likely to
> fail, and requires maintainer to keep around empty repos with README
> files pointing to the new repo.
Going a bit further in the reasoning about this issue, I ponder that
it is even more annoying when major releases of Debian happen as
(hopefully :-)) this week with Lenny.
Indeed during the timeframe of a stable release, packages are more
likely to switch from one VCS to another.
Hence I hereby propose (once this is fixed ...) to propose a stable
upgrade of devscripts in a stable point release, to include this new
feature of debcheckout. In the opinion of other devscript maintainers,
would that be asking too much for a stable point release?
Cheers.
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