Bug#646985: lintian: vcs-* fields containing new-lines
On 2011-10-29 02:56, Russ Allbery wrote: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net writes: From lintian.d.o: libfax-hylafax-client-perl (1.02-1): [...] vcs-field-uses-unknown-uri-format vcs-browser \n http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libfax-hylafax-client-perl/ The check should probably ignore newlines. I think there's another open bug about this somewhere. The question is whether it's safe to have newlines in those fields and if all the parsers handle it. This isn't something that one can necessarily assume; simple fields may not be folded, and there are quite a few simple fields in the debian/control syntax that will break some parsers if folded. True, but then we should emit a multiline-field tag instead of the \n $url error, which just looks like lintian is broken. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#646985: lintian: vcs-* fields containing new-lines
Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net writes: True, but then we should emit a multiline-field tag instead of the \n $url error, which just looks like lintian is broken. Good point. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#646985: lintian: vcs-* fields containing new-lines
Package: lintian Severity: normal From lintian.d.o: libfax-hylafax-client-perl (1.02-1): [...] vcs-field-uses-unknown-uri-format vcs-browser \n http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libfax-hylafax-client-perl/ The check should probably ignore newlines. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#646985: lintian: vcs-* fields containing new-lines
Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net writes: From lintian.d.o: libfax-hylafax-client-perl (1.02-1): [...] vcs-field-uses-unknown-uri-format vcs-browser \n http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libfax-hylafax-client-perl/ The check should probably ignore newlines. I think there's another open bug about this somewhere. The question is whether it's safe to have newlines in those fields and if all the parsers handle it. This isn't something that one can necessarily assume; simple fields may not be folded, and there are quite a few simple fields in the debian/control syntax that will break some parsers if folded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
