Bug#896156: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Creates invalid debian/control files when reformatting comments

[Andreas Tille]

Package: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl
Version: 2.109
Severity: important

Hi,

this is what you can do to reproduce the issue:


dget http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bcftools/bcftools_1.7-2.dsc
cd bcftools-1.7
cme fix dpkg-control
grep ^Suggests debian/control


The comment is moved to a place where it results in an invalid control
file.  In general one criticism of the Uploader of this package was,
that cme has the habit to move around comments.  I think this became
better - but this case is not just moving around but making the control
file technically invalid.  Thus severity important.

Thanks for working on cme

       Andreas.

PS: I'm refering to bcftools_1.7-2 since I'll upload a new version of
the package soon with updated Standards-Version and Vcs-fields so cme
has nothing to do and also does not reformat the file.  To verify the
issue you can also take latest bcftools and decrease Standards-Version.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)