On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 05:29:05PM +0100, Igor Genibel wrote: > * Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> [2004-02-23 16:55:50 +0100]: > > > > PS: some data source is still stale, so that the package-maintainer > > > > relationship isn't updated. > [...] > > Maintainers file is to be up to date. It is rsynced every day from > ftp-master (that does the extract) > Sources.* files are generated from the ftp.nl.d.o mirror so it really > depends on its freshness. ftp.nl.d.o is fine. Actually, I tracked down the problem: it's related to #203145. Policy has not the 'Uploaders:' field documented, and some packages, like lintian, have it multiline. Apparently, ddpo.py doesn't gork a multiline uploaders: correctly. Since Uploaders: is not documented, it is IMHO undefined for Uploaders:. Therefore, I think it really should be in policy, so that for once and for all, it is clear whether this is allowed. I'll push a bit more for a resolution of that bug (i.e., a decision to be made), in the meantime, there are two options: - not have a multiline uploaders, but as long as policy doesn't cover the case, I can hardly add a lintian check for it - have ddpo parse multiline uploaders, like almost any other tool does I'm unsure about which is best to proceed, in sarge+woody, only lintian and libsdl1.2 have a multiline uploaders, and the latter has a multi-line build-depends too, so is definitly broken according to policy 5.1: | Except where otherwise stated, only a single line of data is allowed and | whitespace is not significant in a field body. Whitespace must not | appear inside names (of packages, architectures, files or anything else) | or version numbers, or between the characters of multi-character version | relationships. Currently lintian doesn't catch that mistake in libsdl1.2, I'll look into that (and meanwhile probably simply have a single-line uploaders, as currently lintian is by far in the minority in this regard). Regards, Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar Jeroen@wolffelaar.nl (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
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