Bug#715558: devscripts: drop some entries in control when wrap-and-sorted

Benjamin Drung bdrung at debian.org
Wed Jul 10 15:05:04 UTC 2013


Am Mittwoch, den 10.07.2013, 23:25 +0900 schrieb Osamu Aoki:
> A control file consists of one or more paragraphs of fields[32]. The
> paragraphs are separated by empty lines. Parsers may accept lines
> consisting solely of spaces and tabs as paragraph separators, but
> control files should use empty lines. 
> 
> So this is wishlist bug to wrap-and-sort to accept such lines consisting
> solely of spaces and tabs and convert them to true empty line
> considering its intended use as lint.

Accepted. wrap-and-sort could trim all whitespace on the right side
before passing the data to python3-debian.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer



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