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| author |   Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> | 2022-09-08 10:29:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> | 2022-09-08 13:14:35 +0200 |
| commit | 75a16a8fdc2600dd22e456a29202a3e8fad4ad6f (patch) | |
| tree | ed3fa886e212aa7f396a72c99663ea6cd473aa09 | |
| parent | glep-0074: Inline Manifest format description (diff) | |
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glep-0074: Specify newline convention
Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
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diff --git a/glep-0074.rst b/glep-0074.rst index 677bf35..182a871 100644 --- a/glep-0074.rst +++ b/glep-0074.rst @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>, Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> Type: Standards Track Status: Final -Version: 1.1 +Version: 1.2 Created: 2017-10-21 Last-Modified: 2022-09-08 Post-History: 2017-10-26, 2017-11-16, 2018-02-08, 2022-09-08 @@ -79,7 +79,10 @@ are relative to the directory containing the Manifest file. The paths must not reference the parent directory (``..``). Forward slash (``/``) is used as path component separator. -The Manifest files use UTF-8 encoding. +The Manifest files use UTF-8 encoding. Line feed (``U+000A``) is used +to separate lines. For best compatibility, empty lines and any +additional whitespace, including the carriage return character +(``U+000D``) should be ignored by the implementation. Manifest file locations and nesting @@ -516,6 +519,17 @@ information to perform the verification following all the rules specific to the Gentoo repository. +Newline convention +------------------ + +Prior to version 1.2, the specification did not indicate the encoding +to be used for newlines. Since the format is primarily used on Gentoo +Linux systems, this has been changed to follow the Unix convention +of using the line feed character. However, for best interoperability +the implementation should be prepared to treat superfluous carriage +return characters as whitespace and ignore them. + + Tree design ----------- |