Bug#526713: lintian: vcs-field-uses-unknown-uri-format should handle multi-line fields

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 17:41 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.

debcheckout certainly doesn't.  Given the initial authorship of the
utility, I'd suggest that means that the field wasn't designed to be
multi-line.

Regards,

Adam