Hi, Charles Plessy: > Later, I might propose on debian-devel and debian-dpkg to forbid empty fields > in the whole specification (which means, since we are not using empty fields, > to guarantee that valid files do not and will not contain empty fields). > > (For the avoidance of doubt, by empty I mean: nothing or whitespace only after > the colon.) > Why? Because of variable substitution when processing the source control file, we need to do empty-entry removal there anyway, so any external substitution mechanism (e.g. producing d/control from d/control.in) would have to repeat that algorithm. Unnecessarily.
Today, any such substitution can be pretty dumb, e.g. a shell loop or a couple of s/@VAR@/value/g regexps, and I'd like to be able to keep doing that. -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
