Hi all, The Debian Haskell team has migrated a while back from per-package repositories to a single repository which contains the packaging (only debian/) for the vast majority of packages (https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-haskell/DHG_packages.git/). This makes sense for us since the packaging is uniform enough that we can do mass-changes to packages.
Now, this presents a small problem: Vcs-*, and more precisely Vcs-Git, is supposed to point to a repository which represents only the given package. Vcs-Git has support for branches, but not for subpaths within the repository. This breaks a few (minor) workflows, e.g. vcswatch, so I wonder if it makes sense to extend the policy to support also location within the repository. Maybe other VCSes support this natively by not pointing directly at the repository root, but at least git doesn't. Such a change would touch, for example: - vcswatch which wouldn't look at hardcoded /debian/changelog and /changelog - debcheckout which could say "cd repo/path" after the checkout A potential syntax for the Vcs-* fields would be: Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-haskell/DHG_packages.git/ p/ghc or with branch: Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-haskell/DHG_packages.git/ -b experimental p/ghc And the associated policy paragraph would now be: "In the case of Git, the value consists of a URL, optionally followed by the word -b and the name of a branch in the indicated repository, following the syntax of the git clone command, and optionally followed by a path specification. If no branch is specified, the packaging should be on the default branch. The optional path name after the branch specification defines where in a (shared) repository the sources for this particular package live." Thoughts? regards, iustin
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