On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:49:28 -0200 Herbert Fortes (hpfn) <h...@ig.com.br> wrote: > Package: devscripts > Version: 2.15.10 > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/bin/wrap-and-sort > > Hi, > > The wrap-and-sort script has: > > def remove_trailing_whitespaces(filename): > > But it doesn't remove double or more spaces > inside a line. e.g: > > ' text which belongs to long description. End of line' > > I'm not a programmer, but I did a search and added > a line to do that. I copied these lines and made a > test: > > [...] > > > The line I added doesn't remove all spaces at the > end of the line. That's why two for loops. It works > in a separate test script. But I put it in wrap-and-sort > and it didn't. > > It can be useful for long description in debian/control. > I don't know about the others files. > > > regards, > -- > Herbert Parentes Fortes Neto (hpfn) > >
Adding my cents to this. I do not feel that wrap-and-sort should touch `Description` at all. It is a free form field and we cannot say when there is legitimate use-case for multiple spaces in a row. On the flip side, the dependency field that pabs mentioned would be fine to fix. Thanks, ~Niels
