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) Cheers, Jelmer -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled debian-policy depends on no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy recommends: ii libjs-sphinxdoc 5.3.0-3 Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: pn doc-base <none>