Phill Macey: [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > On 14/05/2012 5:29 AM, "Wietse Venema" <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > The fix is easy: report both the first and last line number. > > > > > > % postconf -c /tmp > > > postconf: fatal: /tmp/main.cf, line 1:2: missing '=' after > > > attribute name: "some random free text" > > > > Dunno about everyone else but when I see 'line 1:2' I tend to think line 1 > character 2. Why not use 'line 1-2' to specify a range instead?
The patch as posted is suitable for a stable release. The "nice" solution requires a proper line number formatting primitive, to represent the most common case as a single number. Wietse