Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> writes:

> several packages split the Vcs-* fields on two lines to avoid long
> lines.  Lintian should not complain in this case.
>
> See [1] for examples: most of the packages with "\n" in the Vcs-* fields
> are false positives.

Do all of the various programs that use Vcs fields support newlines in
the field value?  This is not a given; Policy says that newlines are
only allowed when specifically permitted by the specification for that
field.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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