On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, John Wright wrote: > Hi Stuart (and pkg-python-debian-maint):
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:31:31PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: > > > > The only place where comments are defined in deb822 files that I can > > > > find > > > > is in policy §5.1 and they are only defined for debian/control files and > > > > comments are started by a # at the start of the line. > > > if I get it right, I either saw (or found somewhere) a confirmation that > > > deb822 is based on (not just inspired by) rfc822, and that is why I was > > > expecting comments as defined in rfc822 be respected: > > > https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0822.txt > > > 2.8. ; COMMENTS > > > A semi-colon, set off some distance to the right of rule > > > text, starts a comment that continues to the end of line. This > > > is a simple way of including useful notes in parallel with the > > > specifications. > > > but if deb822 is not derived from rfc822, I guess my report was a moot ;) > > I can see where you're coming from here. Our definition of the format is > > Policy > > §5.1, which doesn't actually mention RFC822, defines some things that are > > not > > in that RFC and doesn't include other things that are. I suspect that our > > common description of this format as being "pseudo-rfc822" is a (clumsy) > > shorthand that at times leads us astray. > > So, I think your bug report exposed some useful inconsistencies in deb822's > > handling of filehandles vs other generators and I think we're getting close > > to > > solving them. Adding handling to the parser for ";"-comments, however, I > > think > > we should skip. > Shall we then tag this bug "wontfix", or close it? I think the main > inconsistency point is solved by a recent patch set by Stuart that > prefers the native parser unless the Sources or Packages class is > explicitly used, and I agree that we should not attempt to implement > comment parsing that, while correct RFC822, is not specified in the > control format policy. FWIW -- do not wait on my 1c -- I trust you guys in your decision ;-) -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Research Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-python-debian-maint
