Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: minor
I tried to use grep-dctrl to parse removals-full.822, but it didn't
work:
$ wget -q https://ftp-master.debian.org/removals-full.822
$ grep-dctrl '' < removals-full.822 > /dev/null
grep-dctrl: -:208271: expected a colon.
The line in question contains spaces only. This is against a "should"
from Policy ยง5.1: "Parsers may accept lines consisting solely of spaces
and tabs as paragraph separators, but control files should use
empty lines."
Removing the spaces fixes it for me:
$ sed -i -e 's/^ *$//' removals-full.822
$ grep-dctrl '' < removals-full.822 > /dev/null
$ echo $?
0
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Jakub Wilk
