Hi Sorry for the late reply
On Thursday, 12 April 2018 21:43:02 CEST Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > Thanks for wrap-and-sort! It's great to have nice canonicalized-form > > debian packaging. > > You should also check out cme :) I can only agree :-D > > I think these three options (--wrap-always, --short-indent, > > --trailing-comma) should be the default. > > I'd like to converge togethre with cme, so I'm CCing its maintainer to > see whether he has an opinion. If so I'd clone the bug so he can do it > as well. I don't have a very strong opinion on what should be the canonical format of debian control files. I do believe that we should have one so tool writers can have a reference to implement and people would not see changes when using different formatting or generation tools (e.g dh-make-perl, cme, wrap-and-sort). That said, I think that having formatting options (like --wrap-always --short- indent) kind of defeat that purpose because people have different ideas on what looks best. Back to cme and wrap-and-sort, I'd really like to converge on formatting so that both tools provide the same output (I've already changed the way dependencies are sorted to match wrap-and-sort algorithm). If we allow formatting options, these options should be saved in a file (should that be a local or global conf file ? or both ?) so that cme and wrap- and-sort can produce the same result with a simple command. > (TTBOMK cme doesn't allow configuring this detail, it only does the > equivalent of plain `wrap-and-sort` in this regard). yes. Some part of cme are generic (for cme dpkg, cme ssh, cme systemd...) and do not support formatting options. I'm currently simplifying the reader/writer classes (aka backend) so adding formatting options to cme should be easier. I've cc'ed debian-perl team, they often have good ideas to smooth packaging workflow. Thoughts ? All the best Dod
