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

[gregor herrmann]

retitle -1 libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: warning about alioth VCS URLs could be improved

On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 17:10:20 +0200, Antonio Ospite wrote:

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

Good question; it's basically what Alioth uses/provides but I don't
know if this is spelt out somewhere explicitly.
 
> 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...

Ah!
 
> 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 :)

Right, I can see now that this message might be misleading and could
be improved.

Next try:
"URL is not the canonical one for repositories hosted on Alioth."

(Now we have en_IT and en_AT, let's see what dod says in en_FR; and
maybe we also get a native speaker :))


Cheers,
gregor

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