Russ Allbery: > Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> writes: > >> Let's see if Debian can agree on a single normalization of 822-ish >> files. For starters, I disagree that "wrap-and-sort -a" is a suitable >> normalization, as that will involve re-indentation when keys change. >> Instead, I propose this as starting point: > >> wrap-and-sort -ast > > I've been using wrap-and-sort -ast on all of my packages for a while, with > much the same justification. > > My recollection is that the relevant Config::Model model has a slightly > different preferred normalization form? Those are the two most common > tools used for this, I think, so if the two of them could agree, that > would go a long way towards having a common format (and this may have > already happened without me knowing). >
Personally, I would be fine with a variant of wrap-and-sort (-bastk or there abouts) being a Debian-wide recommendation/default *if* wrap-and-sort would preserve comments. A case where comments are important to me is the d/control of debhelper, where I document the rationale for many of the versioned (build-)dependencies. It would be a non-starter for me to maintain those comments elsewhere simply because wrap-and-sort keeps steam rolling them into oblivion. ~Niels
