Bug#525525: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#525525: Bug#525525: do not separate stanzas with empty lines when showing Description field only

2009-08-24 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 04:54:13PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I'm not sure whether dctrl is standardized anywhere. I'm sure - it isn't. > I've just checked policy which contains (ยง5.1) something called > "control files", definition that applies to the various stanzas of > debian/control.

Bug#525525: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#525525: Bug#525525: do not separate stanzas with empty lines when showing Description field only

2009-08-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:33:03PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 03:56:45PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Mhhh, I surely understand your consistency argument, but I confess > > I really don't see where the "feature" is. > > A feature is something the dev

Bug#525525: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#525525: Bug#525525: do not separate stanzas with empty lines when showing Description field only

2009-08-24 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 03:56:45PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Mhhh, I surely understand your consistency argument, but I confess > I really don't see where the "feature" is. A feature is something the developer intended, a bug is something the developer didn't intend. A feature can ce

Bug#525525: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#525525: do not separate stanzas with empty lines when showing Description field only

2009-08-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ sorry for the delay, I was on VAC ] On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 10:53:54AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > It's not a bug, it's a feature, going way back to the early versions of > grep-dctrl. It is caused by this conditional statement: >if (args.num_show_fields > 1) puts(""); > in t

Bug#525525: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#525525: do not separate stanzas with empty lines when showing Description field only

2009-08-08 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:18:01AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Hi, I was used to see the output of the various grep-dctrl tools as > stanzas separated by empty lines. That makes such output RFC822 > compliant and parseable with related tools, including python-debian. > > However, I noticed

Bug#525525: do not separate stanzas with empty lines when showing Description field only

2009-04-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: dctrl-tools Version: 2.14 Severity: normal Hi, I was used to see the output of the various grep-dctrl tools as stanzas separated by empty lines. That makes such output RFC822 compliant and parseable with related tools, including python-debian. However, I noticed that if I specify as outp