On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 07:01:14PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 21:59 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > Policy mandates that almost all fields in .dsc files and in the > > 'control' section of a .deb are single-lined. However, for readability, > > it would be very convenient if in 'debian/control', one could use > > multiple lines for Depends:, build-depends, uploaders, and possibly > > others. Since automatic tools don't parse debian/control, but rather the > > .dsc and 'control' section of .deb's, this would be possible if dpkg-dev > > concatenates these values to one-line. The: > > > dpkg-gencontrol already does this: Indeed, I wrongly remembered dpkg-gencontrol missed some of the fields. It misses the 'maintainer' field, but that is nonsense to have multiline anyway. This just leaves dpkg-source, since dpkg-genchanges copies from the .dsc, dpkg-genchanges doesn't need a change for this. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar Jeroen@wolffelaar.nl (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
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