On 2011-10-29 02:56, Russ Allbery wrote: > Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> writes: > >> From lintian.d.o: > >> libfax-hylafax-client-perl (1.02-1): >> [...] >> vcs-field-uses-unknown-uri-format > >> vcs-browser \n >> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libfax-hylafax-client-perl/ > >> The check should probably ignore newlines. > > I think there's another open bug about this somewhere. The question is > whether it's safe to have newlines in those fields and if all the parsers > handle it. This isn't something that one can necessarily assume; simple > fields may not be folded, and there are quite a few simple fields in the > debian/control syntax that will break some parsers if folded. >
True, but then we should emit a "multiline-field" tag instead of the "\n $url" error, which just looks like lintian is broken. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
