Hi Andreas, Petter, and all I updated all tasks of debian-edu to be RFC834 compliant: continuation with indentation, no backslashes, no duplicated keywords. The diff looks OK for me; you should however double check.
If you don't like it, revert and discuss it. I wrote a small Python script for that - nothing I would be proud of, but it did the job here. I attach it since it may help for other tasks as well, but don't blame me :-) I takes all files from the tasks/ subdir, reformats them and writes them back. No security or so. Check with "git diff" afterwards that everything is OK. Cheers Ole
#!/usr/bin/env python3 from __future__ import print_function from glob import glob from collections import OrderedDict import re def format_section(s): return "\n".join(l[1] for l in s.values()) + "\n" def format_task(sections): return "\n".join(format_section(s) for s in sections) def get_task(f): key = "" items = OrderedDict() sections = [] for l in f.readlines(): backslash = "\\" in l l = l.replace("\\","").strip() if not l and not backslash: if items: sections.append(items) items = OrderedDict() key = "" continue m = re.match(r"^(\S+):(\s*)(.*)", l) if m is not None: key = m.group(1) if key in items: items[key][1] += "\n " + " " * items[key][0] + m.group(3).strip() else: if key in ("Depends", "Ignore", "Avoid", "Recommends", "Suggests", "Why"): indent = len(key) + len(m.group(2)) else: indent = 0 items[key] = [indent, m.group(0).strip()] else: items[key][1] += "\n " + " " * items[key][0] + l if items: sections.append(items) return sections for taskname in glob("tasks/*"): with open(taskname) as taskfile: s = format_task(get_task(taskfile)) with open(taskname, "w") as taskfile: taskfile.write(s)