Re: PROPOSAL: command line for LSB package program

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> > the feature is not available ?
> 
> How do you want to report that?

We need agreed exit codes for

	success
	failed to verify
	unsupported
	umm it broke

much as sendmail has for its helpers

> > Also can we have
> >=20
> > <field>:<string>
> > \t<string>
> > \t<string>
> > <field>:...
> >=20
> > for multi-line items ?
> 
> replace \t with any whitespace and I'ld say yes.
> 
> What we do with dpkg is that if a continued line starts with more then
> one space we consider it preformatted; perhaps that might be useful
> as well?

Space is fine by me