Re: Bug#494714: dpkg-dev - dpkg-genchanges should fold lines
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> CCing -policy, do we need to update policy to allow Binary: fields
> over multiple lines?
Yes. (But I certainly have no objections to doing so.)
> Currently it only says that the fields are comma-separated and
> space-separated. Does "space" include newlines like in the usual \s
> perl regexp or not ?
No.
This needs to be clarified in Policy in general, since it's been
confusing to people in several different contexts.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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