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

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:34:58 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:

> > 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.
> Or more precisely:  There are people who are not interested to let
> anonscm.debian.org go anywhere.  On the other hand there are lots of
> people (including me) who consider this totally insane since this just
> continues the "Update Vcs-fields every second year" cycle and I really
> hope that this insanity will be broken by simply pointing anonscm to
> salsa in general once the migration is done.

Well, to be fair, the URLs (the path part after the host) won't match
anyway, and I don't see a way to come up with a generic rewriting
scheme.

(And at that point we could argue again that Vcs-* and other
information shouldn't be in the source package but that won't help
for this bug.)   

Cheers,
gregor

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