Debian Bug report logs - #849715
mailutils: Incorrect Vcs-Svn header in source package

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From: Stuart Prescott <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: mailutils: Incorrect Vcs-Svn header in source package

Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:51:07 +1100

Source: mailutils
Version: 1:3.1.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The mailutils source package declares:

  Vcs-Svn: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/mailutils.git

which incorrectly states that the package is maintained in Subversion while
pointing to a git repository. This (obviously) causes debcheckout to fail:

$ debcheckout mailutils
declared svn repository at https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/mailutils.git
svn co https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/mailutils.git mailutils ...
svn: E175009: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/mailutils.git'
svn: E175009: XML Parsing failed: Unexpected root element 'html'
checkout failed (the command above returned a non-zero exit code)

The actual git repo that is listed is also empty:

$ git clone https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/mailutils.git
Cloning into 'mailutils'...
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
Checking connectivity... done.

It's easy to forget to push after uploading.

cheers
Stuart

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