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Bug#931975: dpkg-checkbuilddeps don't allow multiple Vcs-Git statements



Hello,

On Sun 14 Jul 2019 at 03:03PM -07, Russ Allbery wrote:

> In that case, should we increase the strength of this by changing the
> first sentence?  I'm not seeing much purpose served by developer
> discretion here, and this clarifies matters for tool developers.
>
> diff --git a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> index 81b3542..8124d64 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> @@ -979,7 +979,10 @@ repository where the Debian source package is developed.
>      or ``hg clone`` command. If no branch is specified, the packaging
>      should be on the default branch.
>
> -    More than one different VCS may be specified for the same package.
> +    A package control file must not have more than one ``Vcs-<type>``
> +    field.  If the package is maintained in multple version control
> +    systems, the maintainer should specify the one that they would prefer
> +    other people to use as the basis for proposing changes to the package.
>
>  For both fields, any URLs given should use a scheme that provides
>  confidentiality (``https``, for example, rather than ``http`` or ``git``)

Seconded.

Thanks, Guillem, for the research!

-- 
Sean Whitton

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