Thanks for your quick feedback! On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:39:00PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Not all fields are multi-line and Depends is not AFAIK. Do you have > read any indication that you can have multiple lines in Depends > field somewhere ? > > (no time to check myself)
Yep, no problem.
- according to Policy §7.1 “Syntax of relationship fields”:
> All of the relationship fields may span multiple lines.
- according to upgrade-checklist, the change has been introduced in
policy 3.7.0:
> * All fields, apart from the Uploaders field, in the control file
> are supposed to be a single logical line, which may be spread over
> multiple physical lines (newline followed by space is elided).
> However, any parser for the control file must allow the Uploaders
> field to be spread over multiple physical lines as well, to prepare
> for future changes. [ 5.1, 5.6.3 ]
(policy 3.8.0 then allowed that for Uploaders as well)
> The dependency is not empty because it contains the newline.
I'm not sure why you mentioned this. I agree that there is a newline,
my point in adding this piece of information was to clarify that only
in a precise condition the bug manifest itself. Am I missing
something?
Cheers.
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