Re: Bug#840094: blends-dev: Does not recognize multiline dependencies
Hi Ole,
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 08:56:50AM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote:
>
> If one of our main tools is not compliant with our documented
> specifications, and this may cause incomplete metapackages (which are
> one central part of the blend), then I would still rate this as an RC
> bug, independently of whether it is easy to fix or not.
If all fails I'd considering to fix the documentation (which would be
only the second best solution admittedly).
> > While I fully agree that we should fix this I'm not fully convinced how
> > to sensibly proceed here. The problematic thing is that we are quite
> > short before a release and if we might break metapackage creation in
> > some way we might get in trouble. I'm no Perl programmer myself (even
> > if I think your patch looks sensible) and so IMHO staying conservative
> > and add some line ending escapes could be the less invasive change.
>
> I checked my patch, and it does *not* work correctly, it will produce
> syntax errors in the debian/control file, if RFC822 continuation lines
> are used. For tasks that have all in one line, or that have
> metapackages, everything seems to be OK, however.
>
> > If you (and Bas and other readers here) think we should fix the issue
> > right now I'm fine if you apply the patch below and we should seriously
> > test the metapackage creation of each Blend *before* 2016-12-05.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I am ready to test and also to fix; however my know-how ends here. I
> don't know what is wrong with the fix.
>
> Just wondering, and starting to really get worried: None of the
> debian-blends maintainers has enough Perl knowledge to fix this? If we
> all do not know Perl, why do we use that language in one of our central
> tools? That sounds to me even more RC than the bug itself...
It was originally written by Petter (in CC) who is a Perl programmer but
drifted a bit away from this topic. I'm really sure he will help out.
Your question about the language was answered in my previous mail
mentioning the rewrite.
Kind regards (and thanks for pushing things in the right direction)
Andreas.
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