wrap-and-sort madness

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> FWIW this is an issue in whatever crap control parser wrap-and-sort
> uses, it doesn't strip input lines of nonprintables and the control
> file in question had whitespaces between binary stanzas

FWIW the Debian policy [1] clearly states:
"The paragraphs are separated by empty lines. Parsers may accept lines
consisting solely of spaces and tabs as paragraph separators, but
control files should use empty lines."

So it is a bug in the package, not in wrap-and-sort.

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-controlsyntax

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Dmitry Shachnev