Bug#182022: `' vs : and consistency

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

Going back through this bug, I'm kind of loathe to change the way that
it works currently.

The reasons are two fold:

1) All modifiable values which can only be set to a single value are
   in quotes; those that take multiple values use the colon.

2) Any change means that extant parsers have to be rewritten, and also
   means that these messages will stop being consistent. [IE, log
   messages after the change will be different from those before the
   change.]

I'm open to argument to sway me either way; but baring that, I'll
probably mark this wontfix.


Don Armstrong


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