2009-03-08 Russ Allbery :
| Anything that doesn't handle whitespace in that way is buggy and needs to
| be fixed. I don't think warning (even as a pedantic warning) about
| packages that follow Policy's requirements for debian/control is a good
| idea. I have added a pedantic tag for fields that
tags 409124 wontfix
thanks
Hi,
In light of Russ's message in March 2009 and the fact that no one has
challenged his decision nor submitted any patches, I am marking this as
wontfix for now.
If someone thinks this check is a good idea, please let us know and have
some very good arguments for it.
Russ Allbery writes:
> I'll add a pendantic check along these lines for the next version of
> lintian.
After reviewing Policy, I've changed my mind about this. Policy is very
explicit about this:
Each paragraph consists of a series of data fields; each field
consists of the field name,
tags 409124 -patch
thanks
Gonéri Le Bouder writes:
> A lot of different tools parse debian/control. That's why I think such a
> sanitize check is important.
The original bug wanted a report for more than just debian/control, so
this isn't really a patch for the full original bug.
> diff --git
tag 409124 patch
thanks
Hi,
A lot of different tools parse debian/control. That's why I think such a
sanitize check is important.
Cheers,
Gonéri
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checks/control-file | 11 ++-
checks/control-file.desc |6 ++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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