Re: New packaging manual draft
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > > Joey> think you should point to that RFC in that section BTW, even
> > > Joey> though control file format varies from it in several ways.
> > >
> > > Color me puzzled. If we are so different from teh RFC, why
> > > should we mention it?
> >
> > We're not really that different. The rfc allows any line to be wrapped,
> > we do not.
>
> Erm, I'd consider any parser which does not allow this to be broken..
Most definately. If subsequent lines start with a space, remove all leading
space on the line, all ending space on the previous line, convert to 1 space,
then append the current line to the value.
Jason: I seem to remember some problems in the past, when depends lines where
continued, and apt had issues initially(or something to this effect).
----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----
Version: 3.12
GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL++++ P+ L++++ !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS--
PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z?
-----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
----BEGIN PGP INFO----
Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Finger Print | KeyID
67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E 63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP
AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG
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