Bug#842371: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: dpkg check for debian-uri is different between Vcs-* fields

[Antonio Ospite]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 17:10:33 +0200
gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:48:11 +0200, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> 
> > I noticed that the check for the debian-uri in Dpkg/Control/Source.pl is
> > different between Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git, the former checks for "cgit"
> > in the path while the latter checks for "git" in the path.
> 
> AFAIK that's corrent and ...
>  
> > This can lead to some confusion.
> 
> ... the confusion comes from the fact that the canonical paths _are_
> in fact different for web access and git access :)
> 

Thanks gregor,

Just curios, is this specified somewhere external to
libconfig-model-dpkg-perl?

TBH I might have been misinterpreting what the warning means all along,
and I was thinking that I was supposed to _have_ and _keep_ the
warnings, let me explain.

The message says:

  "URL to debian system is not the recommended one"

and for some reason I was reading it as an advise against using a debian
URL in Vcs-* fields...

But now I realize that it means that the URL is not the recommended one
amongst _debian_ URLs.

Maybe a less ambiguous form can be:

  "URL is not to the recommended debian system"

But I am not a native English speaker, so I don't really know :)

Thanks,
  Antonio

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