packaging policy

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Montag, den 26.04.2010, 20:51 +0200 schrieb 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."

§7.1 does permit multiple spaces "Whitespace may appear at any
point[...]"

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

In my opinion it has noting to do with §5.6.13 (Description is not a
list) and §5.6.21 (Files are separated by newlines and not commas).

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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