Bug#849498: cme: Please allow "fixing" without restyling

[Dominique Dumont]

On Tuesday, 27 December 2016 13:51:28 CET you wrote:
> For the case of team uploads (and maybe NMU's) where people like to use cme
> to fix certain issues in debian/control, it would be helpful if calling cme
> fix would *only* fix issues and not restyle it. 

I've tried such a way by bridging Config::Model with Augeas [1] [2]. But supporting
such a solution is too much work for the benefit. 

I may reconsider this if I get help hacking on Config::Model.

> If the primary maintainer
> is not using cme, the uploader would have to either not use cme in this
> case or take care to commit only the necessary changes, which adds extra
> work and disrupts the uploader's workflow. 

You forgot one option: ask the primary maintainer to accept once a
re-ordering imposing by cme. This would minimize the impact of further
changes done by cme. 

Mentioning that cme's style matches the ordering of parameters in Debian 
policy may help convincing the primary maintainer.

All the best

[1] http://augeas.net/docs/references/1.4.0/lenses/files/debctrl-aug.html
[2] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Model-Backend-Augeas/lib/Config/Model/Backend/Augeas.pm

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