Bug#526713: lintian: vcs-field-uses-unknown-uri-format should handle multi-line fields
"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> dpkg-* do, for the fields mentioned in section 7.1. For example,
> comparing the Build-Depends, Recommends and Suggests fields of
> devscripts in the source package with the results of "apt-cache
> show{,src} devscripts" clearly shows that those fields have been
> wrapped.
>
> However, "apt-cache showsrc libtie-hash-regex-perl" still shows an
> unwrapped Vcs-Browser field, which is what Lintian is complaining
> about.
dpkg-* can't really unwrap fields in general without knowledge of the
semantics of the field, since the newlines may be significant. (Think
Description, for instance.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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