Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
> I still find it useful to grep and sed the Packages file. I don't
> see any advantage in allowing multi-line fields that would compensate
> for that.
FWIW, dpkg does allow it. Debian policy is free to not allow it of
course.
Wichert.
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There's seemingly a broader issue here, too. I've come across an
entry in Sources (vlc) which swaps the version and architecture
components in a build-dep line:
Build-Depends: debhelper (>=2.2.0),
xlibs-dev,
...
libasound2-dev [alpha arm hppa i386 ia64
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:28:07PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> I think the restriction existed because there were tools that
> didn't support te line breaks.
I still find it useful to grep and sed the Packages file. I don't
see any advantage in allowing multi-line fields that would compensate
"John R. Daily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit:
> According to section 3.1 of Policy:
>
> Except where otherwise stated only a single line of data is
> allowed and whitespace is not significant in a field
> body.
>
> Section 7.1, which describes the syntax for relationship fields,
> does
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