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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: 3.8.0.0
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_3.8.0.0.dsc
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.8.0.0.dsc
debian-policy_3.8.0.0.tar.gz
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.8.0.0.tar.gz
debian-policy_3.8.0.0_all.deb
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.8.0.0_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)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
Source: debian-policy
Binary: debian-policy
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.8.0.0
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: 65577 186700 209008 250202 291460 367984 379150 392362 403391 422552 430649 431813 440420 442070 452105 455602 458910 473761 475731 480551 481640 481954
Changes:
debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
* Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
Millan (Closes: #209008).
* Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
(Closes: #430649).
* Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
(Closes: #379150).
* Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
(Closes: #431813).
* Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
* Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
* Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
(Closes: #442070).
* Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
/usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
* Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
(Closes: #65577).
* Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
Küster (Closes: #403391).
* Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
* Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
* Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #186700, #458910
* Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Closes: #480551
* Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
* Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
* Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
* Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
Closes: #481640
* Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
Closes: #481954
* Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
* Add an md5sums control file.
* Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
* Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
* Remove more temporary files created by the build.
* Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
currently part of policy.
* Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
* Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
* Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
and debian/rules.
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