On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 14:09:00 +0100 Dominique Dumont <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sunday, 1 January 2017 14:43:06 CET you wrote: > While I can get used to a field ordering > different from that used by dh-make, my main problem is the way cme > organizes lists-- it removes trailing commas and doesn't use a constant > indentation level globally.Debian policy documents quite well what syntax is acceptable. Unfortunately, there's no recommendation that help consistency between tools that generate (or re-organize) control files (and other).For instance, wrap-and-sort, dh-make* and cme all use different styles.I would not mind changing cme output style if such a recommendation were adopted> Trying to maintain this isn't a one-time > fight with cme. I understand your plight. All the best -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org
Hi,Chiming in on this rather old bug. Based on https://bugs.debian.org/895570#46, we know that `wrap-and-sort -ast` is the most popular styling. So in the absence of `cme` not being able to preserve the original input style, using `-ast` is likely to be a better default.
Secondly, I have introduced an `X-Style: black`[1] to `debian/control` to enable `debputy` to tell when people have opted into to automatic reformatting of `debian/*` files. The `black` style is maintained by `debputy reformat`, so ideally `cme` would use `debputy reformat` for formatting rather than using its own formatting. But, I appreciate that would be difficult to retrofit, and if `cme` would default to `wrap-and-sort -ast` parameters by default it would mostly align with `X-Style: black`. There are still some minor delta due to field ordering plus #1111291 and #1111292, but the big win would be `-ast` right now
Another alternative is to make `cme` not reformat at all and step out of this entire discussion. Though, I suspect if this was easy for `cme` to do then you would have already fixed this bug long ago.
Summing up, I hope I can convince you to migrate `cme` to use `wrap-and-sort -ast` style formatting in the interim in the absence of a full round-trip formatting-less safe parsing + write cycle.
Best regards, Niels[1]: More info at https://people.debian.org/~nthykier/blog/2024/debian-packaging-with-style-black.html if interesting.
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