Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> writes:

> Let's see if Debian can agree on a single normalization of 822-ish
> files.  For starters, I disagree that "wrap-and-sort -a" is a suitable
> normalization, as that will involve re-indentation when keys change.
> Instead, I propose this as starting point:

>   wrap-and-sort -ast

I've been using wrap-and-sort -ast on all of my packages for a while, with
much the same justification.

My recollection is that the relevant Config::Model model has a slightly
different preferred normalization form?  Those are the two most common
tools used for this, I think, so if the two of them could agree, that
would go a long way towards having a common format (and this may have
already happened without me knowing).

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>