Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]

2019-08-10 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 01:57:55PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > I don't remember where this was discussed (quite in length actually), > probably debina-qa@ or debian-devel@. It was then implemented in > vcswatch (https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch) and elsewhere. > I'm positive a result of t

Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]

2019-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > SGTM. We can specify that [ ] contains optional information. I guess > that is why that syntax was chosen... > Then critical information which *should* cause an old parser to fail > can also be added. > So the overall syntax is roughly >[ " -b " ] [ " " ] > [

Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]

2019-07-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]"): > So, maybe something like: > > -b [; = ...] > > to build off of what we already have? (With, obviously, a bunch of that > syntax marked as optio

Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]

2019-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> Sure, an extensible syntax sounds great. The problem is that we kind >> of had one (Vcs-Git was a subset of a git checkout command line, which >> allowed support of the -b option), but this (if I understand it >> correctly) is a whole new type of thi

Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]

2019-07-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]"): > Sure, an extensible syntax sounds great. The problem is that we kind of > had one (Vcs-Git was a subset of a git checkout command line, which > allowed support of

Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]

2019-07-22 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 08:29:16PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sure, an extensible syntax sounds great. The problem is that we kind of > had one (Vcs-Git was a subset of a git checkout command line, which > allowed support of the -b option), but this (if I understand it correctly) > is a whole ne

Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]

2019-07-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > I wrote: >> Many packages' .dscs contain something like this: >> Source: bustle >> Version: 0.7.4-1 >> Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/haskell-team/DHG_packages.git [p/bustle] >> The semantics do not appearr to be documented in policy. > But I foolishly didn't even

Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]

2019-07-21 Thread Ian Jackson
I wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 4.4.0.1 > > Many packages' .dscs contain something like this: > Source: bustle > Version: 0.7.4-1 > Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/haskell-team/DHG_packages.git [p/bustle] > > The semantics do not appearr to be documented in policy. But I foo