On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 08:49:51PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > 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. > > > > I've been using wrap-and-sort -ast on all of my packages for a while, with > > much the same justification. > > For packages generating a lot of binaries, the -b option is also quite > useful, don't you think? As a user of -satb, I'd like to point out that the flags are not all equal. Two of them support a (more objective?) desire that "addition to a list in line-based VCS should have no deletions". That is -at, whereas -s is a subjective prettifier and -b could remove information, hence -k. To make that work as a default, there would need to be something like an --short-preferred-unless-existing-indent to prevent constant reformatting. I disagree with jonas on the importance of -s because I'm not convinced that field names change, especially not often.
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