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On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 18:19:31 +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > 2013-11-07 08:40, Guillem Jover: > > Eugene, this is about adding a new option to replace --status-fd, > > currently proposed as emitting deb822 format messages, I'd like your > > input on this. > > The idea, format and proposed patch look good to me. The only things > popped in my head are: > > a) to specify whether all the values are guaranteed to be one-line, or what > line continuations should be suppored; Ah yes, I noticed the line-wrapping issue after having sent the patch, the errors should probably be normalized in the same way they are for status-fd. Otherwise we'll need to prepend spaces and separate blank lines with « .» or similar. Michael, or was your proposed error format intentional? I forgot to mention that given that the messages are currently localized, it might make sense to use Message-L10n or similar to make that clear, and to possibly allow non-localized messages in the future. OTOH I think apt is currently interested in the non-localized messages only to be able to filter some of them, so maybe doing that would be trying to fix the wrong thing? > b) to specify the format of <package-name> (an example suggests it would > be always fully qualified "package:architecture", but explicitly saying > this would be nice); Also forgot to mention this on my previous mail. Would you prefer having it arch-qualified or the information properly split into another Architecture field? > c) 'Event: warning' could be nice to have in addition to 'Event: error'. Oh yeah, I'll think how to plug that and not affect the rest of the code base using the warning functions. I'll also try to clarify a bit more the format in the documentation. Eugene (and the others too), any more information you think might make your life easier? Either new events or fields? Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
