wrap-and-sort madness

[Harald Sitter]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I know, that's why I fixed it there as well, doesn't change the fact
that the parser is rubbish for not noticing that what it parsed was
wrong to begin with :P

HS