Bug#254449: dpkg-dev: Please have dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-source concatenate multi-line fields to one-line where appropriate
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.10.21
Severity: wishlist
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:
- any automated tools keep getting one-lined values, so don't break
- except dpkg-source and dpkg-gencontrol of course, but that's the
wishlist bug about
- and any package (that uses dpkg-gencontrol, which is afaics, all
packages) can have convenient, easily readable mutli-line values for
Build-depends: et al.
--Jeroen
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.3
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8@euro
Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii binutils 2.14.90.0.7-8 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpio 2.5-1.1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii make 3.80-7 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii patch 2.5.9-1 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl [perl5] 5.8.3-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-modules 5.8.3-3 Core Perl modules.
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
jeroen@wolffelaar.nl
http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
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