Bug#598922: apt-cache showsrc prints too many spaces

2010-10-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Julian Andres Klode 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 Poli

Bug#598922: apt-cache showsrc prints too many spaces

2010-10-03 Thread Julian Andres Klode
reassign 598922 dpkg-dev thanks On So, 2010-10-03 at 11:10 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.8.5 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > one can span fields like Uploaders on multiple lines, using several > spaces to align everything, which is what evolution-mapi people did: > | U

Bug#598922: apt-cache showsrc prints too many spaces

2010-10-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: apt Version: 0.8.5 Severity: normal Hi, one can span fields like Uploaders on multiple lines, using several spaces to align everything, which is what evolution-mapi people did: | Uploaders: Heikki Henriksen , |Lawrence Walton , |Loic Minier , |Oystein