Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> writes:

> The newlines are stripped by dak or dpkg, they are not in the Sources
> file and APT just displays the sources entry as it. Furthermore, Policy
> does not state that whitespace should be ignored, only the newlines; so
> this behavior is correct.

That's a bug in Policy which we'll fix (and are already discussing).

> The following steps seem to be needed to change this:
>      1. Change Policy 5.6.3 to ignore multiple whitespace after newline

Not just after newline.  All whitespace is equivalent to a single space
anywhere in any folded field.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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