Le Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:45:58AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> Charles Plessy writes:
>
> > How about applying the same change to Upstream-Contact, and removing the
> > line-based list syntax entirely ?
>
> Line-based lists are not an invention of DEP-5 -- they're a standard field
> type in
Charles Plessy writes:
> Thanks a lot for this change.
> I note that there is only one line-based list left, the Upstream-Contact
> field, which is optional.
> How about applying the same change to Upstream-Contact, and removing the
> line-based list syntax entirely ?
Line-based lists are not
Le Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:20:01PM -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:09:04PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Well, except this still isn't true. The statements may be split across
> > multiple lines.
>
> > Maybe just say:
>
> > Formatted text, no synopsis: one or mo
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:09:04PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > It would preserve the capacity for structured semantics, but it would
> > change the meaning of many files already in the wild.
> True.
> > On that basis, I would like to avoid making such a change before 1.0 and
> > think that "fo
Steve Langasek writes:
> It would preserve the capacity for structured semantics, but it would
> change the meaning of many files already in the wild.
True.
> On that basis, I would like to avoid making such a change before 1.0 and
> think that "formatted text" is the best option here.
Works f
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 03:05:58PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Steve Langasek writes:
> > On the other hand, while a "formatted text" field type *may* be reflowed
> > for display, is there any software doing that today wrt DEP5? Maybe
> > it's enough to rely on the absence of such formatting in
On Thursday 15 December 2011 18:58:25 Russ Allbery wrote:
> That isn't the extra space that Steve is referring to. The space that
> indicates a continuation is taken for granted; Steve's point is that the
> examples in DEP 5 space the continuation lines over by several more
> spaces, which in a fr
Dominique Dumont writes:
> On Wednesday 14 December 2011 08:31:17 Steve Langasek wrote:
>> 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 t
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 parse
Steve Langasek writes:
> On the other hand, while a "formatted text" field type *may* be reflowed
> for display, is there any software doing that today wrt DEP5? 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 ca
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:50:17PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I noticed in reviewing another patch that the Copyright header is a
> line-based list. One unfortunate implication of that is that this means
> lines are required to be longer than 80 columns if the name of the
> copyright holder is l
Le Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:50:17PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> I noticed in reviewing another patch that the Copyright header is a
> line-based list.
Hi Russ,
among the four “types of values” defined, only “line-based list” preserves all
newlines at any step of the data flow. Using the other
Russ Allbery writes:
> I noticed in reviewing another patch that the Copyright header is a
> line-based list. One unfortunate implication of that is that this means
> lines are required to be longer than 80 columns if the name of the
> copyright holder is long. For example:
> Copyright: 2004,
I noticed in reviewing another patch that the Copyright header is a
line-based list. One unfortunate implication of that is that this means
lines are required to be longer than 80 columns if the name of the
copyright holder is long. For example:
Copyright: 2004, 2009, 2011 The Board of Trustees
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