Bug#1145300: Control file that crashes cme fix dpkg-control

Charles Plessy plessy at debian.org
Thu Aug 27 06:05:01 BST 2026


Hi Dominique,

Le Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 07:24:15PM +0200, Dominique Dumont a écrit :
> 
> I'm pretty sure that cme is choking on this line found in the description from the control file:
> 
>  <https://cf-convention.github.io/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.13/cf-conventions.html#time-coordinate>.
> 
> I think we have 2 choices:
> - split the line, which would break the URL
> - avoid splitting lines without spaces
> 
> I think the latter is better even if this does not fix too long lines in control files. (I  guess I could add a warning without fix in this case).
> 
> What do you think ?

Yes, it must be this line.  I think that it would be good to keep it as it is;
other tools are going to issue a warning anyway.

Cheers,

Charles

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