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Re: Additional fields in debian/upstream?



On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 06:26:12AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> The advantage of using a single field for each ID is that the information is
> easily extracted by retreiving the debian/upstream file and filtering the line
> containing the field.  If it were nested in a YAML mapping, then the only
> robust solution would be to parse YAML.  Also, a simpler syntax means less
> syntax errors.

I think this is a non-argument provided you are using a proper YAML API
as for instance in the Python implementation which is pretty
straightforward.

I could only imagine problems when considering plain grep or something
like this.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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