Bug#148194: debian-policy: Clarification needed regarding multi-line fields

2006-04-11 Thread Russ Allbery
package debian-policy severity 148194 normal retitle 148194 [AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in debian/control thanks Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the proposed patch. Now looking for seconds. IIRC, only one person has so

Bug#148194: debian-policy: Clarification needed regarding multi-line fields

2006-04-08 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2006-04-06 kello 16:35 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:05:28PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Seconded. From a lintian perspective, we're intentionally not checking for wrapped lines in the debian/control file

Bug#148194: debian-policy: Clarification needed regarding multi-line fields

2006-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:05:28PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Seconded. From a lintian perspective, we're intentionally not checking for wrapped lines in the debian/control file because all of the tools cope. If worried about breakage in

Bug#148194: debian-policy: Clarification needed regarding multi-line fields

2006-04-06 Thread Ben Finney
On 06-Apr-2006, Russ Allbery wrote: --- policy.sgml.orig 2005-12-24 13:41:09.0 -0800 +++ policy.sgml 2006-04-06 16:34:13.0 -0700 @@ -2160,7 +2160,11 @@ prgndpkg-genchanges/prgn to generate the tt.changes/tt file to accompany the upload, and by

Bug#148194: debian-policy: Clarification needed regarding multi-line fields

2006-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 06-Apr-2006, Russ Allbery wrote: --- policy.sgml.orig 2005-12-24 13:41:09.0 -0800 +++ policy.sgml 2006-04-06 16:34:13.0 -0700 @@ -2160,7 +2160,11 @@ prgndpkg-genchanges/prgn to generate the tt.changes/tt file to

Bug#148194: debian-policy: Clarification needed regarding multi-line fields

2006-03-29 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:05:28PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Proposal I'd like «Section 5.2. Source package control files -- `debian/control'» to specify clearly[0] that the following fields contain logical lines: Build-Depends,

Bug#148194: debian-policy: Clarification needed regarding multi-line fields

2006-03-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:39:27AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: [...] Proposal I'd like «Section 5.2. Source package control files -- `debian/control'» to specify clearly[0] that the following fields contain logical lines: Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep, Build-Conflicts,

Bug#148194: debian-policy: Clarification needed regarding multi-line fields

2006-03-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does the current stable dpkg also support this format already? I believe, but need to confirm, that it supports it for everything except Uploaders. Uploaders was just fixed in the recent dpkg updates. (So we may want to hold off on Uploaders until

Bug#148194: debian-policy: Clarification needed regarding multi-line fields

2006-03-28 Thread Guillem Jover
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.2 Hi, Definitions === I'll define «physical line» as the stream of bytes ending with an EOL character (usually '\n', but it could be DOS style as well). «multi line» as one or more physical lines with the following ones starting with at least a space.

Bug#148194: debian-policy: Clarification needed regarding multi-line fields

2006-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Proposal I'd like «Section 5.2. Source package control files -- `debian/control'» to specify clearly[0] that the following fields contain logical lines: Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep, Build-Conflicts, Build-Conflicts-Indep,