Hi!
On Sat, 2020-10-24 at 11:54:54 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Rather, I suspect the issue is that Rules-Requires-Root is set to "No"
> rather than "no". AFAICT, only "no" has been defined and it is
> interpreted case sensitively.
Right, and even though this is described in the deb822(5) man page, it
is not explicitly spelled out in the various specific file format man
pages, so I've clarified that there. Also added more clear references
to deb822(5) in the relevant man pages. Patches attached.
> @Guillem/Dpkg Maintainers: Should we provide stricter validation for
> this to stop this at dpkg-source build time ?
Yeah, I think that make sense, as dpkg-buildpackage is already
erroring out on unknown values for «dpkg/» namespaced keywords. So I
prepared the attached patch to do this too.
Thanks,
Guillem
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From: Guillem Jover
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 19:32:08 +0100
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This is clear from the deb822(5) man page, but we can make this clear on
the brief format description for each of these file formats.
Prompted-by: Niels Thykier
---
doc/rootless-builds.txt | 2 +-
man/deb-buildinfo.pod | 3 ++-
man/deb-changes.pod | 3 ++-
man/deb-control.pod | 3 ++-
man/deb-src-control.pod | 3 ++-
man/dsc.pod | 3 ++-
6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/rootless-builds.txt b/doc/rootless-builds.txt
index 3298768ec..af0a32836 100644
--- a/doc/rootless-builds.txt
+++ b/doc/rootless-builds.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ We add a new field to the "Source" stanza of debian/control:
Rules-Requires-Root: no | binary-targets |
-The values are defined as:
+The case sensitive values are defined as:
* If "no", then "debian/rules binary" will not require root at all (not even
fakeroot).
diff --git a/man/deb-buildinfo.pod b/man/deb-buildinfo.pod
index 79894bd8a..8b3e9ffd4 100644
--- a/man/deb-buildinfo.pod
+++ b/man/deb-buildinfo.pod
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ Each field begins with a tag, such as
B
or
B
-(case insensitive), followed by a colon, and the body of the field.
+(case insensitive), followed by a colon, and the body of the field
+(case sensitive unless stated otherwise).
Fields are delimited only by field tags.
In other words, field text may be multiple lines in length, but the
installation tools will generally join lines when processing the body
diff --git a/man/deb-changes.pod b/man/deb-changes.pod
index 5b7aad78d..797a4a56a 100644
--- a/man/deb-changes.pod
+++ b/man/deb-changes.pod
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ Each field begins with a tag, such as
B
or
B
-(case insensitive), followed by a colon, and the body of the field.
+(case insensitive), followed by a colon, and the body of the field
+(case sensitive unless stated otherwise).
Fields are delimited only by field tags.
In other words, field text may be multiple lines in length, but the
installation tools will generally join lines when processing the body
diff --git a/man/deb-control.pod b/man/deb-control.pod
index 645905920..216f1cd02 100644
--- a/man/deb-control.pod
+++ b/man/deb-control.pod
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ Each field begins with a tag, such as
B
or
B
-(case insensitive), followed by a colon, and the body of the field.
+(case insensitive), followed by a colon, and the body of the field
+(case sensitive unless stated otherwise).
Fields are delimited only by field tags. In other words, field text
may be multiple lines in length, but the installation tools will
generally join lines when processing the body of the field (except
diff --git a/man/deb-src-control.pod b/man/deb-src-control.pod
index 9f7b4121e..45130beee 100644
--- a/man/deb-src-control.pod
+++ b/man/deb-src-control.pod
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ least one field. A field starts with a fieldname, such as
B
or
B
-(case insensitive), followed by a colon, the body of the field and a newline.
+(case insensitive), followed by a colon, the body of the field
+(case sensitive unless stated otherwise) and a newline.
Multi-line fields are also allowed, but each supplementary line, without a
fieldname, should start with at least one space. The content of the multi-line
fields is generally joined to a single line by the tools (except in the case of
diff --git a/man/dsc.pod b/man/dsc.pod
index e78eff043..34428bbd5 100644
--- a/man/dsc.pod
+++ b/man/dsc.pod
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ Each field begins with a tag, such as
B
or
B
-(case insensitive), followed by a colon, and the body of the field.
+(case insensitive), followed by a colon, and the body of the field
+(case sensitive unless stated otherwise).
Fields are delimited only by field tags.
In other words, field text may be multiple lines in length, but the
installation tools will generally join lines when processing the body
--
2.29.2
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