J> This should really be a bug against individual packages; it doesn't make sense J> to include it in policy (its obviously not ideal to include trailing J> whitespace), or devref (people writing syslog code won't think to look there, J> and it clutters the "Debian practices" content), or aging in the BTS. Dan, J> what are the relevant packages? Have you cloned this bug against them yet?
All I know is almost any package where the author doesn't have e.g., show-trailing-whitespace turned on all day in emacs will have trailing whitespace. Check with grep -c ' $', or better, pcregrep -c '\s$' on all the non-binary files in the package. So I was hoping there was a central place to mention it. Here I pick some place on Debian at random, and sure enough: $ cd /usr/share/doc $ find mencoder/ -type f|xargs zgrep -c \ $ mencoder/copyright:0 mencoder/examples/codecs.conf.gz:10 mencoder/README.Debian.gz:24 mencoder/changelog.gz:0 mencoder/changelog.Debian.gz:2 Probably 99% of other packages are similar. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
