Le Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:49:21AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > * “The meta-information would be stored in a set of RFC-2822 compliant
> > fields.”
> >
> > RFC-2822 distinguishes between “unstructured” and “structured” fields. The
> > ‘Description’ field you propose is not unstructured, since the first line
> > has a
> > special role, but is not structured in the RFC-2822 way, since that would
> > mean
> > for instance that things between parenthesis are comments. Moreover, having
> > a
> > special role for the first CRLF sign is not consistant with the folding
> > rules
> > of the RFC. Given that in addition RFC-2822 is non-free and therefore can
> > not
> > be distributed in the Debian operating system, I think that it would be
> > safer
> > to write “in the spirit of the RFC-2822” of even “in the spirit of the
> > Debian
> > control files”, and write black on white what parsers should expect. Then we
> > can point to DEP3 in DEP5 ;)
>
> I prefer discussing a real patch here.
Maybe something like this?
Index: dep3.mdwn
===================================================================
--- dep3.mdwn (revision 69)
+++ dep3.mdwn (working copy)
@@ -47,10 +47,19 @@
Structure
---------
-The meta-information would be stored in a set of RFC-2822 compliant
-fields. Those fields should start on the first non-empty line (after
-having stripped whitespace characters at the start and end of lines).
+The meta-information would be stored in a set of fields with a syntax
+similar to the RFC 2822 or Debian control files. More precisely:
+Fields are logical elements composed of a field name, followed by a colon
(":"),
+followed by a field body, and terminated by a "line feed" character followed by
+any character except "space". A field name is composed of printable characters,
+except "colon". A field body is composed of any character except "line feed"
+unless when it is followed with a space, in which case the space is ignored. As
+a special exception, in the sequence of "line feed", "space", "dot" (.), "line
+feed", "space", the spaces are ignored and the dot is replaced by a space.
+Lines that do not belong to a field body and do not start a new field are plain
+comments.
+
For patch-systems like dpatch that require the patch to be a standalone
script, the shebang line is ignored and it is possible to put those fields
in comments. The line should then follow the format "`# <field>`". For
Cheers,
--
Charles
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