[Pkg-kde-extras] Re: rev 4976 - kde-extras/digikam/trunk/debian

[Achim Bohnet]

On Friday, 24. November 2006 00:29, you wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:14:40AM +0100, Achim Bohnet wrote:
> > Author: ach-guest
> > Date: 2006-11-23 11:14:39 +0100 (Thu, 23 Nov 2006)
> > New Revision: 4976
> > 
> 
> > 
> > Modified: kde-extras/digikam/trunk/debian/control
> > ===================================================================
> > --- kde-extras/digikam/trunk/debian/control	2006-11-22 22:55:54 UTC (rev 4975)
> > +++ kde-extras/digikam/trunk/debian/control	2006-11-23 10:14:39 UTC (rev 4976)
> > @@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
> >  Maintainer: Debian KDE Extras Team <pkg-kde-extras at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> >  Uploaders: Achim Bohnet <ach at mpe.mpg.de>, Mark Purcell <msp at debian.org>, Paul Telford <pxt at debian.org>
> >  Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 4.1), cdbs, kdelibs4-dev (>= 4:3.5.1-3), libexif-dev (>> 0.6.9), libtiff4-dev, libgphoto2-2-dev, libkipi0-dev, automake1.9, libsqlite3-dev, libexiv2-dev (>= 0.9.1), liblcms1-dev, libltdl3-dev
> > -Standards-Version: 3.6.2
> > +Standards-Version: 3.7.2
> > +XS-X-Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-kde/kde-extras/digikam/trunk/
> 
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^This should be: XS-Vcs-Svn:
> 
> For example, you can check vim.

Hi Ana,

it's always good to know someone looks over the crap I'm commiting ;)

I've stolen the (great!) idea from the pkg-kolab commit logs.  There they
use XS-X-Vcs-Svn.  Googling was also not very helpful, both ways seem to
be used.

I've found 2 interesting points:

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-ocaml-maint%40lists.debian.org/msg15702.html
...
I know of only two uses of XS-X fields:
- XS-Python-Version (or something like that), mandated by the new python
  policy
- XS-X-Vcs-Svn, discussed on debian-devel some weeks ago

There is no standardization for headers related to the vcs used by a
package, but there is currently no drift either. The only packages I
found with such info are Dato's and I inherited from it.

My hope is to standardize it by mere use. To this end I also contacted
Raphael Hertzog to see if I can use this information as part of the
static information in the PTS.
...

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-ocaml-maint%40lists.debian.org/msg15706.html
...
The fields named XS-whatever flows through (dak, whatever, ...) and
arrive to the Sources files without the heading "XS-". Similarly the
fields named XB-whatever end up in the Packages file.
...



So IMHO XS-X-Vcs-Svn is better because it will end up as X-Vcs-Svn in the source
file.  And the leading X- indicates that it's not a standard field.  But I've no
problem changing it XS-Vcs-Svn if it already more widly used.

[I'm no also tempted to add a XB-X-Vcs-Svn (or XB-Vcs-Sv) so apt-cache show <pkg>
also displays the info.  Homepage is already there. And the next important info is
of course the debian pkg src info ;)]

Anyone knows a bit more about all this?  Is XS-X-Vcs-Svn or 
XS-Vcs-Svn the way to go?

Thx again Ana,
Achim
> 
> Ana
> 
> 

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