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[martin f krafft]

also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at debian.org> [2008.09.28.1756 +0200]:
> Thinking out loud: remember the bug you (or me, doesn't matter)
> reported against debcheckout in Debian to better support, via
> heuristics, topgit? Well, once I have time to fix it :), we can
> ask debcheckout if some package using Vcs-Git is actually topgit
> or not, how does that sound?

In a way that we could run this over the entire archive to produce
statistics? Well, all Vcs-Git packages anyway...?

> It would be better to avoid adding that behavior to "debcheckout -p"
> though, as currently that flag is able to work offline, while the new
> query behavior would require network connection ...

... remind me again why we shouldn't just introduce Vcs-TopGit?

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