Bug#840094: blends-dev: Does not recognize multiline dependencies
On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 11:33:27AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 10/08/2016 11:15 AM, Ole Streicher wrote:
> > When a "Depends:" field in a task file contains more than one line, only
> > the first line is used to create the dependency in debian/control. All
> > others are silently ignored.
>
> You can have dependencies on multiple lines when you escape the newline.
Correct.
> See for example:
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/blends/projects/gis.git/tree/tasks/devel
>
> That may be sufficient for your needs, although supporting the same
> syntax as regular debian/control files would be nice too.
BTW, this is done in the GSoC rewrite[1] which unfortunately did not
made it into production yet. Probably we should try to make a common
effort to switch to this version for the next release cycle.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] ssh://git.debian.org/git/blends/blends-gsoc.git
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