Quoting Niels Thykier (2021-02-10 17:35:36) > Russ Allbery: > > 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). > > > > Personally, I would be fine with a variant of wrap-and-sort (-bastk or > there abouts) being a Debian-wide recommendation/default *if* > wrap-and-sort would preserve comments. Ah, right. I totally forgot that, and agree that auto-killing comments is a no-go. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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