On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 06:48:13PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 05:24:36PM +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > 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) > > I do not quite understand. Surely the package need to use the VCS-* header > corresponding to the VCS used by the repository, whathever it is ? This is not > a matter of preference.
Sorry, to be clear I also meant encouraging the use of Git as a Vcs - rather than just of the Vcs-Git header. Jelmer