Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Andreas Tille wrote: > > To make sure I'm not missunderstood: What you call polemic was not > > addressed at alioth admins. It was rather that lintian checks something > > that sounds useless to me and I wonder why we are doing th

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-28 Thread Russ Allbery
James McCoy writes: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 01:52:25PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >> In how far will it be more performant to use anonscm? > However much it costs to do the redirection. Or, in the case of some of the VCS protocols, a full network proxy, because there's no way inside the prot

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Andreas Tille wrote: > To make sure I'm not missunderstood: What you call polemic was not > addressed at alioth admins. It was rather that lintian checks something > that sounds useless to me and I wonder why we are doing this. Alioth admins want to move all read-only access

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-28 Thread James McCoy
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 01:52:25PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi James, > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 07:48:06AM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > > > > See also , > > > > so maintainers should be aware of the problem. > > > > > > IMHO this

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 09:45:24AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > It would help even more if people could inform them and complain at the > right place. I know they tend to skip over some of the mails sent > at ad...@alioth.debian.org but I prodded them on IRC (#alioth) > and this has been f

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi James, On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 07:48:06AM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > > > See also , > > > so maintainers should be aware of the problem. > > > > IMHO this is the wrong attitude. While I tend to respect lintian issues > > of severit

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-28 Thread James McCoy
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:27:33AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 07:55:44AM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > > > _BUT_: After changing svn://svn.debian.org/... to > > > svn://anonscm.debian.org/... makes it work again: > > > > See also

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:31:04AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > And back to this actual issue: I *totally* fail to see in how far a > > package becomes a better user / developer experience just because I > > do > > > > g/^Vcs/s/svn/anonscm/ > > > > IMHO requiring this from maintainers is a

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-28 Thread Simon Kainz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 08/28/13 10:31, schrieb Alexander Wirt: > Andreas Tille schrieb am Wednesday, den 28. August 2013: > >> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 07:55:44AM -0400, James McCoy wrote: _BUT_: After changing svn://svn.debian.org/... to svn://anonscm.debian.o

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-28 Thread Alexander Wirt
Andreas Tille schrieb am Wednesday, den 28. August 2013: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 07:55:44AM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > > > _BUT_: After changing svn://svn.debian.org/... to > > > svn://anonscm.debian.org/... makes it work again: > > > > See also

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 07:55:44AM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > > _BUT_: After changing svn://svn.debian.org/... to > > svn://anonscm.debian.org/... makes it work again: > > See also , > so maintainers should be aware of the problem. IMH

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Raphael, On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 09:45:24AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > I think that it would help tremendously if somebody could help the Alioth > > admins > > to repair the redirection that was broken recently. > > It would help even more if people could inform them and complain at th

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 07:55:44AM -0400, James McCoy a écrit : > > > > See also , > > so maintainers should be aware of the problem. > > I think that it would help tremendously if so

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-26 Thread Simon Kainz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 08/26/13 15:17, schrieb Andrey Rahmatullin: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 07:55:44AM -0400, James McCoy wrote: >> See also >> , so >> maintainers should be aware of the problem. > It's only I:

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 07:55:44AM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > See also , > so maintainers should be aware of the problem. It's only I: -- WBR, wRAR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 07:55:44AM -0400, James McCoy a écrit : > > See also , > so maintainers should be aware of the problem. Hi all, I think that it would help tremendously if somebody could help the Alioth admins to repair the redi

Re: Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-26 Thread James McCoy
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 08:36:21AM +0200, Simon Kainz wrote: > Currently (as of 2012-08-26) duck.debian.net shows me 9301 binary > packages with URL issues, resulting from 4318 source packages. > > … > > There Vcs-Svn: points to > svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-hebrew/pkg/bidiui and Vcs-Browser

Huge list of broken Vcs-Svn entries in control files

2013-08-25 Thread Simon Kainz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! (Sorry, this might be a bit longer to read, but I really want to make my points clear...) Currently (as of 2012-08-26) duck.debian.net shows me 9301 binary packages with URL issues, resulting from 4318 source packages. I took a closer look and n