Re: Bug#840094: blends-dev: Does not recognize multiline dependencies
On 11/09/2016 03:35 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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.
>
> For the future I think we should start a common effort to switch to
> blends-dev 0.7[1] which neither has the problem above nor some other
> problems.
>
> 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 think supporting the deb822 format should be a Blends release goal for
buster, it's indeed to late in the stretch dev cycle in my opinion.
Kind Regards,
Bas
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