Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> writes: > The newlines are stripped by dak or dpkg, they are not in the Sources > file and APT just displays the sources entry as it. Furthermore, Policy > does not state that whitespace should be ignored, only the newlines; so > this behavior is correct.
That's a bug in Policy which we'll fix (and are already discussing). > The following steps seem to be needed to change this: > 1. Change Policy 5.6.3 to ignore multiple whitespace after newline Not just after newline. All whitespace is equivalent to a single space anywhere in any folded field. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
