Bug#90989: proposal] making all control fields multi-line

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 12:10:56AM +0100, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Requiring tools to accept multi-line values everywhere should help keeping
> them simpler (actually, a lot of them already seem to do this, anyway).

Before we make this policy, can we ensure that all significant
packages which parse control files can all cope with this change.  (I
guess that would include dpkg, apt, lintian, any others?)

Then we must make sure that at least one release passes before
packages can make use of any changed behaviour.

Wichert: what is the status of dpkg wrt multi-line control fields?
Has it always been able to cope with this for all fields?  dpkg-dev
may be a different story, but is much less important in this regard.

   Julian

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