Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > In response to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494714 > I would like that the policy be updated to allow the Binary field in > .dsc and .changes to span over multiple lines.
This would be the first field in .dsc and .changes that would permit continuation lines. I'd rather not do this one-by-one if we're going to make a change here, particularly since it's already confusing what fields permit continuation lines and which don't. Currently, we have a fairly clean separation in that some lines in debian/control can be wrapped, but nothing in *.dsc, *.changes, or DEBIAN/control may be wrapped except the fields whose content includes newlines in the format. Before we change that fairly clean separation, I'd like to know where our long-term direction is here and whether we should be planning to support wrapping every field. Given that *.dsc, *.changes, and DEBIAN/control are not usually edited by humans and are generally only interpreted by programs, I question the point of adding complexity to everything else in Debian to support continuation lines there. I think the current system, where all the tools that read debian/control and generate other files from it unwrap all the lines, makes a lot of technical sense. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org