packaging policy

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 08:16:29PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
>Am Montag, den 26.04.2010, 17:45 +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
>> >Do we wrap lists in debian/control (for example, Build-Depends)?
>>
>> It is new to me - I had seen it before but you guys made me reflect 
>> on it and have now made CDBS do it by default.  In other words: I 
>> love it!
>>
>> I do not like long indentations, though.  I propose that we recommend 
>> wrapping with comma+newline+one-single-space.
>
>I prefer the long indentations to have all items below the first one. 
>This make the affiliation more visible, because of the different width 
>of the indentation.

The convention documented in Debian Policy §7.1 is "single space after 
each comma" and "wrapping [...] after a comma and before the space 
following that comma."

This is in line with other more restrictive file formats (§5.6.13, 
§5.6.21), which mandates single-space indentation.


  - Jonas

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