Bug#431813: marked as done (support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory)
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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:06:42 -0700
- Message-id: <20070705050642.13431.97729.reportbug@windlord.stanford.edu>
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.2
Severity: wishlist
Now that etch has released, the dpkg in stable supports unwrapping a
wrapped Uploaders field in debian/control. This fix was made in dpkg
1.13.14, uploaded to experimental on 2006-02-12.
Accordingly, we can now elevate the should support in policy to a must
support to match the other fields in debian/control that support
wrapping.
I also continue to find the specification of field wrapping less than
obvious for the relationship fields; section 7.1 still doesn't say
explicitly that fields may be wrapped. So at the risk of addressing
multiple issues in one patch, I also added some additional language to
that section to be more explicit.
Comments?
--- orig/policy.sgml
+++ mod/policy.sgml
@@ -2392,16 +2392,10 @@
</p>
<p>
Any parser that interprets the Uploaders field in
- <file>debian/control</file> should permit it to span multiple
- lines<footnote>
- In the future, the Uploaders field in
- <file>debian/control</file> (but not other control files)
- will be permitted to span multiple lines and interpreting
- a multi-line Uploaders field shall be mandatory.
- </footnote>. Line breaks in an Uploaders field that spans
- multiple lines are not significant and the semantics of
- the field are the same as if the line breaks had not been
- present.
+ <file>debian/control</file> must permit it to span multiple
+ lines. Line breaks in an Uploaders field that spans multiple
+ lines are not significant and the semantics of the field are
+ the same as if the line breaks had not been present.
</p>
</sect1>
@@ -3883,13 +3877,16 @@
Whitespace may appear at any point in the version
specification subject to the rules in <ref
id="controlsyntax">, and must appear where it's necessary to
- disambiguate; it is not otherwise significant. For
+ disambiguate; it is not otherwise significant. All of the
+ relationship fields may span multiple lines. For
consistency and in case of future changes to
<prgn>dpkg</prgn> it is recommended that a single space be
used after a version relationship and before a version
number; it is also conventional to put a single space after
each comma, on either side of each vertical bar, and before
- each open parenthesis.
+ each open parenthesis. When wrapping a relationship field, it
+ is conventional to do so after a comma and before the space
+ following that comma.
</p>
<p>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: debian-policy
Source-Version: 3.7.3.0
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
debian-policy_3.7.3.0.dsc
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.7.3.0.dsc
debian-policy_3.7.3.0.tar.gz
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.7.3.0.tar.gz
debian-policy_3.7.3.0_all.deb
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.7.3.0_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 431813@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (supplier of updated debian-policy package)
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
Source: debian-policy
Binary: debian-policy
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.7.3.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Description:
debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents
Closes: 294962 361418 363133 382612 392594 402975 412634 413575 418444 420701 424212 431813 435207 440931 448035
Changes:
debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
* Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
/bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
* Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
Allombert (Closes: #361418).
* Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
* Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
* The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
and Marco d'Itri.
* Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
virtual packages.
* Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
* Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
(Closes: #431813).
* Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
* Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
list?" (Closes: #412634).
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
* Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
* Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
* Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
(ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
* Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
debconf specification.
* Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
* Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
Files:
483848c51ce80749d34a6a83f07dc48e 765 doc optional debian-policy_3.7.3.0.dsc
e8b9c137483d3441fbb8fd0e9078f475 643340 doc optional debian-policy_3.7.3.0.tar.gz
6ada9e31cf531c7ec52e7f4fe974c924 1509794 doc optional debian-policy_3.7.3.0_all.deb
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