to, 2006-04-06 kello 16:35 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti: > Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:05:28PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Seconded. From a lintian perspective, we're intentionally not checking > >> for wrapped lines in the debian/control file because all of the tools > >> cope. > > >> If worried about breakage in scripts that parse the .dsc and .changes > >> files, I think the best thing to do would be to state that wrapping is > >> permitted in the debian/control file, but not permitted (except for > >> defined fields that already allow multiline values) in DEBIAN/control, > >> .changes, or .dsc files. I believe lintian currently implements > >> exactly this check. > > >> I can prepare text if there's general agreement that this is the right > >> direction to go. I'd been meaning to propose something very much along > >> these lines myself. > > > Ditto, looking forward for a patch along these lines to second :). > > Here is the proposed patch. Now looking for seconds. > > --- policy.sgml.orig 2005-12-24 13:41:09.000000000 -0800 > +++ policy.sgml 2006-04-06 16:34:13.000000000 -0700 > @@ -2160,7 +2160,11 @@ > <prgn>dpkg-genchanges</prgn> to generate the > <tt>.changes</tt> file to accompany the upload, and by > <prgn>dpkg-source</prgn> when it creates the <file>.dsc</file> > - source control file as part of a source archive. > + source control file as part of a source archive. Many fields are > + permitted to span multiple lines in <file>debian/control</cite> > + but not in any other control file. These tools are responsible > + for removing the line breaks from such fields when using fields > + from <file>debian/control</file> to generate other control files. > </p> > > <p> > @@ -2332,6 +2336,20 @@ > multiple entries should be comma separated. This is an > optional field. > </p> > + > + <p> > + Any parser that interprets the Uploaders field in > + <file>debian/control</file> should permit it to span multiple > + lines<footnote> > + In the future, the Uploaders field in > + <file>debian/control</file> (but not other control files) > + will be permitted to span multiple lines and interpreting > + a multiline Uploaders field shall be mandatory. > + </footnote>. Line breaks in an Uploaders field that spans > + multiple lines are not significant and the semantic meaning of > + the field is the same as if the line breaks had not been > + present. > + </p> > </sect1> > > <sect1 id="f-Changed-By"> > @@ -3822,6 +3840,15 @@ > </p> > > <p> > + When these fields are used in the <file>debian/control</file> > + file, line breaks are permitted before any whitespace > + character. Line breaks are not permitted in these fields when > + used in any other control file. For consistency it is > + recommended that line breaks only be used before the whitespace > + following a comma. > + </p> > + > + <p> > For example, a list of dependencies might appear as: > <example compact="compact"> > Package: mutt
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