On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 12:42:28PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > I'm also growing some URL switching fatigue when it comes to Debian's > > git repos. And that's one of the reasons I moved all my packaging to > > my own server some time ago. > > This is just a symptom of a Debian design flaw that dates back to > before we started using VCSen for packaging. We include information in > the source package that can change independently of the source package > (such as Vcs-*, Homepage, debian/watch, Maintainer/Uploaders etc). > These should be stored externally to source packages and merged into > the Packages/Sources files by the archive software.
+1 -- I want to build worthwhile things that might last. --joeyh