Use of the XS-Vcs-bzr (or -git, ...) debian/control field

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:59:54AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> The main question I have is: what should be done with packages that
> already have an XS-Vcs-* field from Debian? For example, the installer
> uses XS-Vcs-Svn extensively, but I would like to add XS-Vcs-Bzr. Aside
> from the fact that having both simultaneously would be ambiguous and
> confusing, there's a possibility that both Debian and Ubuntu are using a
> bzr branch. I'd suggest XS-Original-Vcs-* except I never did figure out
> why we used Original rather than Debian there, and it's even more likely
> that Ubuntu derivatives will want to change XS-Vcs-* than Maintainer,
> given our goals for bzr integration. Can I suggest that we standardise
> on renaming any existing XS-Vcs-* field to XS-Debian-Vcs-*?

We used Original rather than Debian because we import packages from sources
other than Debian.    Using XS-<origin>-Vcs-* sounds appropriate to me.

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 - mdz