Bug#750542: /usr/bin/debcheckout doesn't detect the new alioth https Git URLs

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Wed Jun 4 22:58:07 UTC 2014


Control: retitle -1 debcheckout doesn't detect the non-anonscm Alioth URLs
Control: user devscripts at packages.debian.org
Control: usertag -1 debcheckout

On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 12:07:56PM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote:
> When trying to checkout a package which has a Vcs-Git field filled with
> the Git URL as displayed on alioth repositories [0], the "authenticated"
> checkout doesn't work:
> 
> $ debcheckout -u odyx -a printer-driver-ptouch
> can't use authenticated mode on repository
> 'https://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/git/printing/ptouch-driver.git' since it is
> not a known repository (e.g. alioth)

The problem is actually that debcheckout recognizes
“https://anonscm.debian.org/git/…” style URLs.  Those still work, but
apparently Alioth is now advertising different URLs.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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