packaging policy

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Montag, den 26.04.2010, 23:16 +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:57:43PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> >Am Montag, den 26.04.2010, 20:51 +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> >> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 08:16:29PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> >> >Am Montag, den 26.04.2010, 17:45 +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> >> >> >Do we wrap lists in debian/control (for example, Build-Depends)?
> >> >>
> >> >> It is new to me - I had seen it before but you guys made me 
> >> >> reflect on it and have now made CDBS do it by default.  In other 
> >> >> words: I love it!
> >> >>
> >> >> I do not like long indentations, though.  I propose that we 
> >> >> recommend wrapping with comma+newline+one-single-space.
> >> >
> >> >I prefer the long indentations to have all items below the first 
> >> >one. This make the affiliation more visible, because of the 
> >> >different width of the indentation.
> >>
> >> The convention documented in Debian Policy §7.1 is "single space 
> >> after each comma" and "wrapping [...] after a comma and before the 
> >> space following that comma."
> >
> >§7.1 does permit multiple spaces "Whitespace may appear at any 
> >point[...]"
> 
> Yes.  That's why I wrote that it is a convention, not a requirement.
> 
> 
> >> This is in line with other more restrictive file formats (§5.6.13, 
> >> §5.6.21), which mandates single-space indentation.
> >
> >In my opinion it has noting to do with §5.6.13 (Description is not a 
> >list) and §5.6.21 (Files are separated by newlines and not commas).
> 
> What they have in common is pseudo-rfc822 format, I believe.

Yes.

> We clearly disagree, and noone else have shared their opinion.

Yes, but we agree on wrapping at least. ;)

> I suggest we document that there is no consensus on format of multi-line 
> lists for now.

Yes.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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