Bug#513475: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#513475: support to join / normalize multi-line 822 stanzas

2009-04-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 07:52:17PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: There is an exception though: the grepping of Description and relying on the fact that removing the first line of it will give you the long description. I'm quite confident that even this case is not that common

Bug#513475: support to join / normalize multi-line 822 stanzas

2009-01-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: dctrl-tools Version: 2.13.1 Severity: wishlist Now that multi-line 822 fields in debian/control-s are allowed and are becoming widespread, I was looking for a tool to do 822-aware greps in my packages. In fact, can use grep-dctrl for that, e.g.:

Bug#513475: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#513475: support to join / normalize multi-line 822 stanzas

2009-01-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 02:19:31PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: 1) always join 2) join by default, offer flag to avoid joining 3) do not join by default, offer flag to join I prefer 3. I don't like breaking invariants that user scripts might depend on. (Though I'm open to arguments

Bug#513475: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#513475: support to join / normalize multi-line 822 stanzas

2009-01-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:06:44PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 02:19:31PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: 1) always join 2) join by default, offer flag to avoid joining 3) do not join by default, offer flag to join I prefer 3. I don't like breaking