Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files
At (time_t)1021649088 Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> In my reading of policy, policy doesn't currently allow it.
> Either those packages need to be fixed, or
> policy. I don't think 2% of packages not following policy
> should be enough to change policy, considering the usefulness
> of simple tools like grep and sed.
Interestingly enough, it's not immeidately clear that multi-line
description fields are permissable in the policy. Obviously, that
is the intent, and it is implied by 5.7.1, but not "stated".
3.1: Except where otherwise stated only a single line of data is
allowed
But back to the build-depends issue, I agree that there is little
(nothing?) to be gained by allowing multi-line fields, and much
to be gained by disallowing it.
Here is the list of packages in the May 11 Sources.gz file for
woody which have multi-line build-depends fields. I can't
guarantee the completeness of the list, and it's always possible
I have misidentified some of the below, but I feel pretty
confident about it.
blinkd
c2hs
clanbomber
control-center
dia
directfb
exim
extace
flightgear
ghc4
ghc5
gmail
gmime
gnome-applets
gnome-chess
gnome-core
gnome-libs
gnome-print
gtm
happy
libcapplet
libglade2
librep
libsdl-ruby
libsdl1.2
libxml
libxml2
libxslt
libzvt
lirc-xmms-plugin
memprof
pfe
pike
sawfish
scrollkeeper
simgear
snacc
vlc
wine
-John Daily
john@geekhavoc.com
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