Bug#858579: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz: please support a comment syntax for Debian changelog files

2017-04-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-20T09:39:42+0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 11:00:20 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > The former. You'll never see a C library interface manpage with > > double-colons in the name, and C++ programmers never write manpages > > because their programming language

Bug#858579: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz: please support a comment syntax for Debian changelog files

2017-04-20 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 11:00:20 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2017-04-09T03:57:01+0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sat, 2017-03-25 at 19:27:55 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Section 3 manpages for Perl modules? Will wonders never cease? ;-) > > > > I'm not sure if the wonder

Bug#858579: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz: please support a comment syntax for Debian changelog files

2017-04-12 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-09T03:57:01+0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, 2017-03-25 at 19:27:55 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 03:07:32PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > The implementation in dpkg-dev already supports all of this > > > (see man

Bug#858579: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz: please support a comment syntax for Debian changelog files

2017-04-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2017-03-25 at 19:27:55 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 03:07:32PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > The implementation in dpkg-dev already supports all of this > > (see man Dpkg::Changelog::Debian), including: > > Section 3 manpages for Perl modules? Will

Bug#858579: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz: please support a comment syntax for Debian changelog files

2017-03-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 03:07:32PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > The implementation in dpkg-dev already supports all of this > (see man Dpkg::Changelog::Debian), including: Section 3 manpages for Perl modules? Will wonders never cease? ;-) Thanks--I was utterly unaware of this. > So I guess

Bug#858579: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz: please support a comment syntax for Debian changelog files

2017-03-25 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 20:30:54 -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.18.23 > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz > I believe that, as a general rule, all human-readable, human-editable, > machine-parseable file formats should support a

Bug#858579: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz: please support a comment syntax for Debian changelog files

2017-03-23 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.18.23 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz I believe that, as a general rule, all human-readable, human-editable, machine-parseable file formats should support a comment syntax. Debian changelogs meet these criteria. My use case is simply