Hi, On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 17:04:17 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I have proposed a modification for Policy that will permit wrapping in the > following fields in debian/control: > > Depends Recommends Suggests Enhances Pre-Depends Conflicts > Provides Replaces Build-Depends Build-Depends-Indep > Build-Conflicts Build-Conflicts-Indep > > and recommend ("should") that all packaging tools support wrapping in: > > Uploaders > > with a note that, in the future, support will be mandatory and packages > will be allowed to wrap the Uploaders field.
> My belief is that this is the current behavior of the packaging tools and > that this does nothing beyond bring Policy in line with the current > implementation. (Uploaders is left in a separate category because I > believe this was already supported by the version of dpkg and dpkg-dev in > sarge for all fields except Uploaders.) However, I would greatly > appreciate it if you would look over Bug #148194 against debian-policy and > follow up in that bug with any concerns or problems that you have with > this change. I'm completely fine with this change (as can be seen from the bug report ;). dpkg has supported multi-line fields for a long long time, it has only been recently that it has started unwrapping the lines when generating other control files from debian/control. This was done mainly because of the policy and because few tools broke, namely the DDPO. The relevant changes by Frank Lichtenheld that introduced line unwrapping in dpkg are: dpkg (1.13.14) experimental; urgency=low * Strip any newlines from Uploaders field on dpkg-source -b. Closes: #254449 dpkg (1.13.12) experimental; urgency=low * Let dpkg-source -b check the build relation fields before putting them into the .dsc. As a side effect they also get normalized. Closes: #254449 So you may want to consider Upladers in the same way as the other fields, be it a "must" or a "should" (personally I'd go for the first one, but could understand the second option). regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]