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

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:52:20AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.

I hadn't heard of any other sources objecting to us failing to change
their Maintainer fields.

> Using XS-<origin>-Vcs-* sounds appropriate to me.

Right - in hindsight I would have preferred to use
XS-<origin>-Maintainer too, but it's too late now.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]