python-debian, wrap-and-sort, paragraphs separators and comments

[Stuart Prescott]

Hi zack,

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:50:58AM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote:
>> My proposal is then:
>> 
>> * ensure the internal parser supports whitespace and comments as required
>> 
>> * switch the default parser in iter_paragraphs to the internal parser
>> (changing the kwarg to be use_apt_pkg=False) and clearly document the
>> situations where an application might safely choose to use TagFile
>> (use_apt_pkg=True).
> 
> As a plan, this looks good to me: as a default, I'd favor correctness
> over speed anytime. If one is ready to sacrifice correctness for speed,
> asking to do so explicitly sounds reasonable.  Of course, this change
> will warrant a NEWS.Debian entry.

I don't believe it does warrant a NEWS.Debian entry I wasn't planning to 
include one. python-debian is installed on a huge number of debian systems 
(with popcon showing it in 76% of responses -- reportbug depends on it so it 
is effectively priority standard even if that's a priority mismatch!). Of 
those 76%, most don't know it's even installed and almost none of them care 
because they're not writing code with deb822.py.

We wouldn't include a NEWS item if this were a non-native library changing 
its internal behaviour in a backwards-compatible way and I'm pretty sure we 
shouldn't reduce the signal:noise in apt-listchanges.

cheers
Stuart

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