Bug#90989: proposal] making all control fields multi-line

2001-03-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Dependencies and Build-Dependencies can be quite long, which means either > using a lot of horizontal scrolling, or violating the policy (since lintian > checks for single-lineness of some fields but not those, and dpkg is happy > with that, and the buildds too

Bug#90989: [proposal] making all control fields multi-line

2001-03-24 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.2 Severity: wishlist Summary: All tools reading fields in debian/control should expect them to grow to multiple line (this topic has been discussed a bit a week ago in -policy). Technical reasoning: The current policy specifies (3.1) that "Except where otherwis

Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads)

2001-03-24 Thread AndreasSchulz
- Original Message - From: "Ben Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Herbert Xu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 3:23 AM Subject: Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads) > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:42:5