Bug#646985: lintian: vcs-* fields containing new-lines
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> From lintian.d.o:
> libfax-hylafax-client-perl (1.02-1):
> [...]
> vcs-field-uses-unknown-uri-format
> vcs-browser \n http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libfax-hylafax-client-perl/
> The check should probably ignore newlines.
I think there's another open bug about this somewhere. The question is
whether it's safe to have newlines in those fields and if all the parsers
handle it. This isn't something that one can necessarily assume; simple
fields may not be folded, and there are quite a few simple fields in the
debian/control syntax that will break some parsers if folded.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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