On 2/9/21 7:40 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> writes: > >> Let's see if Debian can agree on a single normalization of 822-ish >> files. For starters, I disagree that "wrap-and-sort -a" is a suitable >> normalization, as that will involve re-indentation when keys change. >> Instead, I propose this as starting point: > >> wrap-and-sort -ast > > I've been using wrap-and-sort -ast on all of my packages for a while, with > much the same justification. > > My recollection is that the relevant Config::Model model has a slightly > different preferred normalization form? Those are the two most common > tools used for this, I think, so if the two of them could agree, that > would go a long way towards having a common format (and this may have > already happened without me knowing).
For packages generating a lot of binaries, the -b option is also quite useful, don't you think? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
