Re: Bug#516706: lintian: [new check] report on missing commas in build-deps split across several lines
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 09:07 +0000, Jo Shields wrote:
> It is nice when dealing with very long Build-Depends lines to split them
> across several lines, like this:
>
> Build-Depends: foo,
> bar,
> baz
>
> However, lintian does not notice if one of the commas on the end of a
> line is missing, and the source package might enter the archive in an
> unbuildable state (e.g. if the package is tested in a dirty chroot, then
> the packager may not notice the problem)
fwiw, there's a (very) recent commit to dpkg's git repository meaning
that such broken stanzas will be rejected by dpkg. This may cause one
or two issues with the test-cases for this tag. :-)
Adam
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