Control: tag -1 + pending Hi Martin
Martin Pitt wrote: > Niels Thykier [2015-07-15 7:20 +0200]: > > If you are planning on using "comma" as the canonical separator, please > > consider also updating the examples in your documentation. E.g. your > > [1] still says: > > > > """ > > The source package provides a test metadata file debian/tests/control. > > This is a file containing zero or more RFC822-style stanzas, along these > > lines: > > > > Tests: fred bill bongo > > Restrictions: needs-root breaks-testbed > > """ > > Thanks for pointing out! Fixed in git now: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git/commit/?id=5521c Fixed in lintian's git now, too: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=98c2644e > > On a related note, do you want us to recommend users to use comma > > instead of whitespace (by warning about a pure whitespace separator)? > > Using whitespace only is still legitimate syntax and I don't want to > break that for the time being due to backwards compat. Likewise I > wouldn't want to introduce potentially hundreds of lintian warnings > just for that yet. So a lintian warning seems to be too strong to me, > at least for the time being. Please file a separate bug report against lintian once whitespace-only as delimiter gets deprecated. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
