Re: Additional fields in debian/upstream?
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> 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.
I agree with Charles that this kind of simplicity is desireable, and the contrast to the references makes sense to me now.
Michael
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