On Mon 2018-04-23 14:10:02 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > I do believe that we should have one so tool writers can have a reference to > implement and people would not see changes when using different formatting or > generation tools (e.g dh-make-perl, cme, wrap-and-sort).
makes sense to me. > That said, I think that having formatting options (like --wrap-always --short- > indent) kind of defeat that purpose because people have different ideas on > what looks best. sure, but they're all wrong except for me, right? :P > Back to cme and wrap-and-sort, I'd really like to converge on formatting so > that both tools provide the same output (I've already changed the way > dependencies are sorted to match wrap-and-sort algorithm). > > If we allow formatting options, these options should be saved in a file > (should that be a local or global conf file ? or both ?) so that cme and wrap- > and-sort can produce the same result with a simple command. perhaps the options could go someplace like debian/source/canonicalize ? --dkg