On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 09:07 +0000, Jo Shields wrote: > It is nice when dealing with very long Build-Depends lines to split them > across several lines, like this: > > Build-Depends: foo, > bar, > baz > > However, lintian does not notice if one of the commas on the end of a > line is missing, and the source package might enter the archive in an > unbuildable state (e.g. if the package is tested in a dirty chroot, then > the packager may not notice the problem)
fwiw, there's a (very) recent commit to dpkg's git repository meaning that such broken stanzas will be rejected by dpkg. This may cause one or two issues with the test-cases for this tag. :-) Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
