Hi Petter, On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:07:47AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I have not followed this issue closely, but started reading on Andreas > request.
Thanks a lot for your quick response. > First of all, I believe this issue is based on incorrect documentation. Yes. > The task files have never been RFC822 compliant. I agree that they > should be RFC822 compliant, but the only handled continuation method > implemented have always been using backslash at the end of the previous > line. > > Moving to full RFC822 compliance is probably best done with a test suite > in place, to verify that existing task files still produce the expected > set of tasks after such change. Fully ACK. > [Andreas Tille] > > Petter, could you please have a look at the patch provided by Ole[1]? > > I had a look and tested a bit, and it look good to me. The old style > backslash continuation used by Debian Edu continue to work, and the new > RFC822 style continuation start working. I believe it should be applied > and uploaded to Debian. > > Should I commit it? Yes please. Ole, you reported problems with your patch. Could you please be more verbose about this problem - at best based on Petter's commit to make sure we are all working on the same code? Thanks again Petter for your always reliable support Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de