Bug#473874: Lift the 1024-byte limit on configuration file lines.
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 12:39:56PM -0300, Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> was heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:14:47AM -0300, Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> was heard to say:
> >> <...>
> >> > In my own tests, my changes work fine and produce the same results
> >> > on files that used to work (e.g., from "apt-config dump"), but this is a
> >> > more invasive change than my last patch. I'd appreciate it if someone
> >> > else could review it.
> >> <...>
> >>
> >> I've not yet tested it but from first looking it looks good.
> >>
> >> I'll report back in cuple of days...
> >
> > Have you had a chance to look at this yet?
>
> I've did a look at it but hadn't tryed it. The patch looks safe and I
> trust your judgement so please go ahead.
>
> It doesn't break API/ABI and then I see no problem in doing it.
>
> I guess we have enough changes for a new release. Please give it a
> test and upload :-)
OK, I've pushed the changes into the main branch (along with some
changelog entries for my patches). I'll try them out on my system this
week (note however that the configuration change is something that
needs broad testing more than lengthy testing) and if they look good
I'll see about uploading over the weekend.
Daniel
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