Re: Bug#494714: dpkg-dev - dpkg-genchanges should fold lines
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > dpkg-genchanges should fold lines in the output to a sane length. There
> > is a package in the archive (linux-modules-extra-2.6) which produces a
> > 25k long Binary line, which is cropped by gpg during signing.
>
> I guess we should do the same for the Binary: field in the .dsc in that
> case. Why did you mention only the .changes ?
Bastian, you did not reply to my question.
> CCing -devel to have input about possible stuff that would break if the
> Binary field is split over multiple lines. I have checked
> dak/process_unchecked.py and it seems to handle correctly a Binary: field
> split over multiple lines. But we have many other tools that parses
> .dsc and .changes.
>
> The Binary: field in .dsc is the one that has the biggest impact since
> it's copied over in Sources files on mirrors and parsed by many custom
> scripts. The one in .changes concerns fewer tools probably.
Hello APT maintainers,
does APT work correctly if the Binary: field in Sources.gz (and .dsc)
spans over multiple lines? (and apt-ftparchive?)
> CCing -policy, do we need to update policy to allow Binary: fields
> over multiple lines?
Apparently yes, I filed #533852.
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