Bug#714185: rheolef: Vcs-Svn does not work

Sebastian Ramacher sramacher at debian.org
Mon Sep 16 17:00:22 UTC 2013


Hi Pierre

On 2013-09-16 18:02:41, Pierre Saramito wrote:
> > From Sebastian Ramacher:
> > The repository declaed in Vcs-Svn does not work:
> > | % debcheckout rheolef
> > [...]
> > | svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-science/packages/rheolef/trunk/ rheolef ...
> > [...]
> > | checkout failed (the command above returned a non-zero exit code)
> 
> I've just tried the same command and it works fine (see attachment).
> Perhaps a temporary failure of the svn.debian.org sever ?

Yes, that might be the case.

> > The host should be anonscm.debian.org instead.
> 
> After a simple try:
>  % svn co svn://annonscm.debian.org/svn/debian-science/packages/rheolef/trunk/ rheolef 
> 	svn: E670002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://annonscm.debian.org/svn/debian-science/packages/rheolef/trunk'
> 	svn: E670002: Nom d'hôte inconnu 'annonscm.debian.org'
> It seems that this host has no svn server ?

Sorry, my bad. I always forget that anonscm doesn't need svn in the
URLs. It should be
svn://anonscm.debian.org/debian-science/packages/rheolef/trunk/.

The rationale for the change is explained in lintian's
vcs-fields-not-canonical tag and the referenced mail there.

Regards
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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