Bug#526713: lintian: vcs-field-uses-unknown-uri-format should handle multi-line fields
Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@2008.43-1.org> writes:
> several packages split the Vcs-* fields on two lines to avoid long
> lines. Lintian should not complain in this case.
>
> See [1] for examples: most of the packages with "\n" in the Vcs-* fields
> are false positives.
Do all of the various programs that use Vcs fields support newlines in
the field value? This is not a given; Policy says that newlines are
only allowed when specifically permitted by the specification for that
field.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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