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 your request would be to officialize (at least the proper > comment markers ‘#’) as supported, in the spec. I'll probably mention > this on the debian-policy mailing list, but I guess I should just do > it (perhaps all the currently accepted syntax) because if someone wants > to code an alternative implementation, they will have to replicate the > logic, or it will be unable to parse existing changelogs. > > Also because dpkg can always be more lax than policy, and this is the > case right here. Yes, that's precisely what I'm shooting for. I urge you to go ahead and do it; it's obviously not a breaking change. My longer-term objective here is to write (or persuade someone to write) a Vim syntax highlighter for Debian copyright files, and for that it would be helpful to have an implementation-independent spec for the file format. I was looking to the existing highlighting for deb-control and deb-changelog files, when I noticed that Vim was highlighting my existing comment line in xtrs's debian/changelog with ugly white-on-red. It'll be easier to get that fixed if I can point to it being part of the sepc, though in the meantime I'm happy to appeal to your authority. ;-) -- Regards, Branden
