[8376] in athena10
Re: Vcs-auth proposal draft
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Fri Sep 2 12:58:57 2011
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:58:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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devscripts 2.11.1 includes this change:
* debcheckout: Handle Alioth's new anonymous access URLs when converting to
authenticated URLs. (Closes: #628674)
Since Alioth now has different URLs for unauth'd and auth'd access, this
is probably something that has either now been fixed upstream or is badly
in need of a solution upstream. I haven't looked at the bug or change
itself to determine how this is done.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Evan Broder wrote:
> Hey everybody -
> I'm planning to send mail to debian-{policy,devel} proposing the
> addition of a new header field in the debian/control file - a Vcs-auth
> field that contains a URL for authenticated access to the repository.
> This is one of the big pieces that Debathena is missing to make using
> upstream tools like debcheckout (as opposed to our hacked up tools
> like dasource) usable for development.
>
> My current draft is at </mit/broder/Public/vcs-auth-header>. I'd
> appreciate it if people could look over it and comment. In particular,
> I'd appreciate it if the DDs on the list could glance at it and point
> out any potential pitfalls or criticisms from debian-devel I could
> potentially short-circuit (short of, you know, the fact that I'm
> e-mailing -devel at all :-P)
>
> I'll probably send this very late tonight or tomorrow.
>
> - Evan
>
