On Wednesday 14 December 2011 08:31:17 Steve Langasek wrote: > On the other hand, while a "formatted text" field type may be reflowed for > display, is there any software doing that today wrt DEP5?
config-edit doe not. > Maybe it's > enough to rely on the absence of such formatting in DEP5 parsers for the > time being; if and when something starts to care about formatting the > Copyright field, we can always scan the archive to detect files that look > like they'll wind up formatted poorly. > And of course, anyone who cares about formatting to this degree can always > add that extra space at the front of the line. I notice, in fact, that > all our examples of multi-line Copyright: fields in the draft already do > this. Current parser relies on this extra space to distinguigh between a copyright continuation and extra fields. For instance, a parser will fail if a copyright field is written this way: Copyright: 2008: John Smith 2009: Angela Watts because a parser cannot decide if "2009:" is a copyright continuation or an extra field. All the best Dominique -- http://config-model.wiki.sourceforge.net/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/ddumont -o- http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201112151007.26240....@debian.org