On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 17:41 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@2008.43-1.org> writes: > > > several packages split the Vcs-* fields on two lines to avoid long > > lines. Lintian should not complain in this case. > > > > See [1] for examples: most of the packages with "\n" in the Vcs-* fields > > are false positives. > > Do all of the various programs that use Vcs fields support newlines in > the field value? This is not a given; Policy says that newlines are > only allowed when specifically permitted by the specification for that > field.
debcheckout certainly doesn't. Given the initial authorship of the utility, I'd suggest that means that the field wasn't designed to be multi-line. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
