"Adam D. Barratt" <[email protected]> writes: > dpkg-* do, for the fields mentioned in section 7.1. For example, > comparing the Build-Depends, Recommends and Suggests fields of > devscripts in the source package with the results of "apt-cache > show{,src} devscripts" clearly shows that those fields have been > wrapped. > > However, "apt-cache showsrc libtie-hash-regex-perl" still shows an > unwrapped Vcs-Browser field, which is what Lintian is complaining > about.
dpkg-* can't really unwrap fields in general without knowledge of the semantics of the field, since the newlines may be significant. (Think Description, for instance.) -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
