reassign 598922 dpkg-dev
thanks
On So, 2010-10-03 at 11:10 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.8.5
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> one can span fields like Uploaders on multiple lines, using several
> spaces to align everything, which is what evolution-mapi people did:
> | Uploaders: Heikki Henriksen <[email protected]>,
> | Lawrence Walton <[email protected]>,
> | Loic Minier <[email protected]>,
> | Oystein Gisnas <[email protected]>,
> | Josselin Mouette <[email protected]>,
> | Jelmer Vernooij <[email protected]>,
> | Yves-Alexis Perez <[email protected]>,
> | David Weinehall <[email protected]>
>
> But it looks like apt-cache showsrc almost display them as-is, that is
> just stripping newlines:
> | Uploaders: Heikki Henriksen <[email protected]>, Lawrence Walton
> <[email protected]>, Loic Minier <[email protected]>,
> Oystein Gisnas <[email protected]>, Josselin Mouette
> <[email protected]>, Jelmer Vernooij <[email protected]>,
> Yves-Alexis Perez <[email protected]>, David Weinehall
> <[email protected]>
>
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.
The following steps seem to be needed to change this:
1. Change Policy 5.6.3 to ignore multiple whitespace after newline
2. Strip the whitespace in dpkg
But as this is not an APT bug, I am reassigning it to dpkg-dev and let
them decide what to do next.
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