Bug#889732: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Does not recognize Salsa platform in Vcs field

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 20:36:39 +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:

> > Warning in 'control source Vcs-Browser' value
> > 'https://salsa.debian.org/blahblah-team/blah.git': URL is not the canonical 
> > one for repositories hosted on Alioth.
> I wonder what is the best solution here. 
> cme issues a warning is the vcs browser URL does not point to 
> anonscm.debian.org. This host currently redirects to alioth. IIRC, it will  
> point to salsa once the transition is done.

No, TTBOMK it won't. (So much for generic hostnames.)
There's a rewriter [0] in place, but anonscm.debian.org won't go
anywhere, AFAIK.
 
> What can we do in the meantime with cme ?
> - accepts both salsa and anonscm ? (this is a change that would need to be 
> reverted once alioth to salsa transition is done)
> - remove the check until the transition is done, so no warning is emitted
> - do nothing (may be update the doc)

Maybe accept alioth/anonscm and salsa for now, and remove the former
once it's shut down.
Or just switch to salsa. Or don't do nothing now and switch to salsa
once alioth is history.


Cheers,
gregor


[0] https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/AliothRewriter 

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