Hi Ole, On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 11:33:27AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 10/08/2016 11:15 AM, Ole Streicher wrote: > > When a "Depends:" field in a task file contains more than one line, only > > the first line is used to create the dependency in debian/control. All > > others are silently ignored. > > You can have dependencies on multiple lines when you escape the newline.
In other words: Once it was defined as syntax for these control files that newlines need to be escaped. I do not like it and as I said this is fixed in the long-term pending rewrite. However, the bug is not serious but at best wishlist. Would you follow this arguing? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de