Le Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 03:45:51PM +0200, Guillem Jover a écrit : > On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 11:32:14 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > </p><p><taglist> > > +<tag>5.1</tag> > > + <item>Control data fields must not start with the hyphen character > > + (<tt>-</tt>) because it interferes with clearsigning control data files. > > + </item> > > <tag>5.4, 5.6.24</tag> > > <item><tt>Checksums-Sha1</tt> and <tt>Checksums-Sha256</tt> are now > > mandatory in <file>.dsc</file> files. > > Strictly speaking the problem is with (all?) deb822 parsers that do > not dash-unescape clearsigned messages not with the possibly > dash-escaped control files, proper dash-escaping is there precisely > to avoid any interference from initial dashes. > > And the reason to ban initial hyphens is because they do not make > sense in field names and I don't think it's worth updating all > parsers.
Thanks Guillem, I will replace "because it interferes with clearsigning control data files" by "to avoid potential confusions when parsing clearsigned control data files that were not properly unescaped". Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
