Re: XS-Vcs-field

2007-05-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:57:23PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Umm, sure. I had not given an example of the control file, since that was the same as the control file for vim. Perhaps I need to make this more explicit, since you were confused. No, it was indeed clear. I just

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2007-05-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Wed, 09 May 2007, Felipe Sateler wrote: Doesn't the PTS also use this information to inform of vcs commits to the suscribed users? No. The PTS forward VCS notifications that it receives, but it doesn't generate them on its own. Each package/project has to setup its VCS to send the

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2007-05-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, It has been a long time since there was any discussion on this. I have taken the last patch created by Stefano Zacchiroli, added an arch specific example, regenerated the patch against todays CVS of the developers reference, and attached it to this mail. The PTS already

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2007-05-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:13:56PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: The PTS already implements the fields referred to in this patch, so this is a working current practice, and I think we are way past the design phase, so there should be no objection to including this in the developers

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2007-05-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 9 May 2007 00:07:26 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:13:56PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: The PTS already implements the fields referred to in this patch, so this is a working current practice, and I think we are way past the design

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2006-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:31:32 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On dom, 2006-11-12 at 14:02 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I suggest that we specify tow headers: and SCM specific header, XS-Vcs-NAME where name is one keyword from a specified list (bzr, cvs, svn, darcs, git,

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2006-11-13 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:02 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I suggest that we specify tow headers: and SCM specific header, XS-Vcs-NAME where name is one keyword from a specified list (bzr, cvs, svn, darcs, git, hf, or arch), and XS-VCS-Browse, which is a plain old HTTP URL. Yes,

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2006-11-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On dom, 2006-11-12 at 14:02 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: tla is wrong. The name of the protocol is arch; and tla and baz are competing implementations of the standard. Agreed, will fix this. snipped useful analysis I suggest that we specify tow headers: and SCM specific

XS-Vcs-field

2006-11-12 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, in bug #391023, this description of this field is given: +tagttXS-Vcs-*/tt + item + (where emVcs/em is the acronym for emVersion Control System/em, + and tt*/tt stands for one of the Vcs supported by the package + tracking system: ttbzr/tt, ttcvs/tt, ttdarcs/tt, +

Re: Bug#391023: XS-Vcs-field splitting into XS-Vcs-source XS-Vcs-dpkg

2006-11-12 Thread Geert Stappers
+ /p Is this desciption correct? The description leafs room for ambiguity. The text tells about the (upstream) source by using the generic name package, the example tells about the Debian directory. Where I think the XS-Vcs field is a good thing, I also think there should a field

Re: Bug#391023: XS-Vcs-field splitting into XS-Vcs-source XS-Vcs-dpkg

2006-11-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Geert Stappers wrote: The text tells about the (upstream) source by using the generic name package, the example tells about the Debian directory. So fix the wording... and don't change everything when there has been some serious discussion on -devel and when lots of

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2006-11-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, in bug #391023, this description of this field is given: +tagttXS-Vcs-*/tt + item + (where emVcs/em is the acronym for emVersion Control System/em, + and tt*/tt stands for one of the Vcs supported by the package + tracking system: ttbzr/tt, ttcvs/tt, ttdarcs/tt, +

Re: Bug#391023: XS-Vcs-field rewording

2006-11-12 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 12-11-2006 om 15:04 schreef Raphael Hertzog: On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Geert Stappers wrote: The text tells about the (upstream) source by using the generic name package, the example tells about the Debian directory. So fix the wording... Value of this field should be an URL pointing to