Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]

Ian Jackson ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon Jul 22 00:25:46 BST 2019


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 foolishly didn't even CC the Haskell team!  Sorry.

Haskell folks, would you care to suggest a wording ?

Policy folks: can I suggest that we should define an extensible
syntax ?  If the syntax had been made extensible last time it was
extended, devscripts and dgit would probably have coped here.
(#932697 in devscripts and #932699 in dgit.)

Ia.

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