On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:49:17PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:20:51 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> > > As far as branches are concerned, the default branch should point to
> > > the debian packaging branch and that's it.

> > And how do you do that, when the debian and upstream repos are the same?
> > That seems to be a fairly arbitrary limitation.

> It depends on the Vcs, bzr URL include the branch for instance.

> In the case of git, I don't have any nice answer. But you can always setup
> a mirror on git.debian.org where HEAD points to the right branch.

How about fixing the URI spec for the Vcs-Git field to support branch
specifications?  This really seems like the obvious thing to do, even if git
itself won't interpret the URI extension directly.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slanga...@ubuntu.com                                     vor...@debian.org


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Reply via email to