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| author | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2019-07-16 17:48:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2019-07-16 17:48:06 +0100 |
| commit | 72fd3a57c0e74f5f22245df8680ace66af57efb2 (patch) | |
| tree | 11f7d038f9d7ae01832aa1f11a3c636ac85ee909 | |
| parent | bbd0b23bb5dedba4bb0f9d87386f580f7a52d58d (diff) | |
Policy: Only one Vcs-<type> field is permitted
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #931975
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | policy/ch-controlfields.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | policy/upgrading-checklist.rst | 14 |
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index b3839a8..f6c2d15 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ -debian-policy (4.4.0.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium +debian-policy (4.4.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium - * Clarify using more than one VCS-* field. - Thanks to Guillem Jover for reporting the problem and Russ Allbery for - the patch. + * Policy: Only one Vcs-<type> field is permitted + Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> + Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> + Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> + Closes: #931975 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> Mon, 15 Jul 2019 19:02:20 +0100 diff --git a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst index fb2b6e5..60edc82 100644 --- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst +++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst @@ -979,8 +979,11 @@ 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 ``Vcs-<type>`` field may be specified for the same - package, but only if the <type> parameters are all unique. + 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``) diff --git a/policy/upgrading-checklist.rst b/policy/upgrading-checklist.rst index ccbe06c..d19450b 100644 --- a/policy/upgrading-checklist.rst +++ b/policy/upgrading-checklist.rst @@ -39,6 +39,20 @@ The sections in this checklist match the values for the except in the two anomalous historical cases where normative requirements were changed in a minor patch release. +Version 4.4.1 +------------- + +Unreleased. + +5.6.26 + 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. + + Version 4.4.0 ------------- |