Subject: bug#75: [Devuan-bugs] bug#75: InRelease formatting errors

From: KatolaZ <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 06:02:32 +0100

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 07:31:39PM -0400, Where all about bugs in Devuan packages is reported wrote:
> The InRelease file for jessie-security is a bit better; it has a newline
> after the Components field, an additional Description field, but each
> hash is still prefixed with two spaces:
> 
> Components: main contrib non-free
> Description: Devuan 1.0 Jessie Security Updates
> MD5Sum:
>   a39e73f232d88ed23a6821d1ede10d39       32 non-free/binary-hppa/Packages.xz
> 
> What are these files being generated by? The standard InRelease file
> generator, apt-ftparchive, uses only one space:

The actual number of spaces before the MD5 sums does not seem to be
specified anywhere, not even here:

  https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Format

Anyway, this should be solved by the new version of amprolla. 

HND

KatolaZ