From: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
Subject: Re: pkg_info: fold Comment newline
To: Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org, Marc Espie <marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2024 19:35:06 +0100

On 2024/03/02 17:39:10 +0000, Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org> wrote:
> As per Makefile.template and portcheck(1) COMMENT is <=60 chars, so it'd
> fit on the same Comment: line in pkg_info(1) output -- less scrolling!
> 
> It just stands out, imho, compared to Maintainer: and WWW: where there's
> no such seemingly superfluous line break.
> 
> Thoughts?

I like it!  it seems better to me to keep "Comment" and the comment text
in the same line; especially since we strive to have "short" comments.

However, it seems to me that this has the chance of breaking other
tools.  Reading this diff I've discovered the -l flag for pkg_info that
is meant to aid parsing the output of pkg_info.  I have no clue if this
option is used anywhere, but I'd prefer not to discover it when we're
this close to the release :)

In particular, pkg_info -lxxx quirks will change:

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 xxxInformation for inst:quirks-7.10
 
-xxxComment:
-exceptions to pkg_add rules
+Comment: exceptions to pkg_add rules