Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences
On 2/9/21 7:40 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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).
For packages generating a lot of binaries, the -b option is also quite
useful, don't you think?
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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