--events-fd, deb822 format (Re: [patch] always send the full name on the --status-fd)

["Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf@debian.org>]

Hi,

2013-11-07 08:40, Guillem Jover:
> [ CCing the cupt package as affected dpkg frontend, but not using the
>   alioth address as I usually cannot directly send there; leaving
>   previous context for the benefit of the new readers. ]

Thanks for caring.

> Eugene, this is about adding a new option to replace --status-fd,
> currently proposed as emitting deb822 format messages, I'd like your
> input on this.

The idea, format and proposed patch look good to me. The only things
popped in my head are:

a) to specify whether all the values are guaranteed to be one-line, or what
line continuations should be suppored;
b) to specify the format of <package-name> (an example suggests it would
be always fully qualified "package:architecture", but explicitly saying
this would be nice);
c) 'Event: warning' could be nice to have in addition to 'Event: error'.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++ GNU/Linux userspace developer, Debian Developer