The newline doesn't render (nor copy) in Debian's online man page:
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/postgresql-server-dev-all/pg_buildext.1.en.html
Thanks for taking a look at this so quickly!
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 9:52 AM Christoph Berg <m...@debian.org> wrote:
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> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
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> Re: James Coleman 2019-01-03
> <154653375527.15542.7930361310988330932.reportbug@3becc38dcedd>
> > Specifically I copied the control.in sample, and along with a project
> > Makefile (commands for which unfortunately are not detailed in the man
> > page) I found that running "pg_buildext controlcheck" (or updatecontrol)
> > fails with the example control.in file because there is not a newline
> > after the "Build-Depends:" line (so there is only one "paragraph" in
> > the file).
>
> Hi James,
>
> the pg_buildext(1) manpage looks like this here:
>
> EXAMPLE
> debian/control.in:
> Source: postgresql-foobar
> Build-Depends: debhelper, postgresql-server-dev-all (>= 153~)
> XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest
>
> Package: postgresql-PGVERSION-foobar
> Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, postgresql-PGVERSION
>
> Where did you see a version which is lacking the newline after the
> source paragraph?
>
> Christoph
