Bug#501688: Getting dh-make-perl to use META.yml

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Paul Fenwick, Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 09:13:38PM +1100 |=-

> I got stalled slightly by having a big hunk of work land on me, but I'm
> looking through dh-make-perl again now.  I've noticed that the indenting and
> bracing tends to wander around a bit, which can make the program flow hard
> to follow in parts.

Try setting the tab wisth to 8 (set ts=8 in vim).

> I'm hoping to standardise the code layout, and wanted to check if we have a
> preferred indentation level and bracing style?  If not, I'll use the Perl
> Best Practices recommendations of K&R braces, uncuddled elses, 4-space
> indents, and no tabs.

Any readable indentation/brace style is acceptable.

Please don't re-indent the whole file, just the parts you change.

If you still feel like re-indenting the whole file, send that as 
a separate patch (perhaps before the real/functional patch).


Thank you for your time.

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