Bug#874206: debian-policy: allow a trailing comma in package relationship fields

2017-09-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 02:51:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 08:55:45AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > >> No idea about apt, but dpkg's maintainer told me (shortly after having > >> filed this bug) that dpkg supported

Bug#874206: debian-policy: allow a trailing comma in package relationship fields

2017-09-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 08:55:45AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: >> No idea about apt, but dpkg's maintainer told me (shortly after having >> filed this bug) that dpkg supported it basically since ever; quoting >> him: >> >> mapreri: the trailing

Bug#874206: debian-policy: allow a trailing comma in package relationship fields

2017-09-06 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:28:37AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > I didn't even know this syntax was allowed, and now that I do I'd love > to use it. Happy to have confirmation that some clarity is needed :) > Do you know how long this has worked, in apt and dpkg? No idea about apt, but dpkg's

Bug#874206: debian-policy: allow a trailing comma in package relationship fields

2017-09-05 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 10:03:47 +0200 Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.9.8 > > I use the `wrap-and-sort` tool to keep my list of dependencies neatly > sorted and wrapped. In particular, I use the `-t` flag to have a > trailing comma at the end of the

Bug#874206: debian-policy: allow a trailing comma in package relationship fields

2017-09-04 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.8 I use the `wrap-and-sort` tool to keep my list of dependencies neatly sorted and wrapped. In particular, I use the `-t` flag to have a trailing comma at the end of the list. For example Build-Depends: foo, bar, Homepage: … There, notice how there is a