[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51090] pkg DESCRIPTION should not contain duplicate keywords

[Mike Miller]

URL:
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                 Summary: pkg DESCRIPTION should not contain duplicate
keywords
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mtmiller
            Submitted on: Mon 22 May 2017 06:10:53 PM PDT
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 2 - Minor
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: mtmiller
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

The manual says the following about the pkg DESCRIPTION file:

> Multiple dependencies can be defined either as a comma separated list or on
separate Depends lines.

This is actually incorrect, subsequent Depends lines replace previous lines.

In addition to fixing this doc error, I would also like to see warnings from
pkg when it parses a DESCRIPTION file that contains duplicate keywords. Since
this shouldn't be done, it doesn't really matter whether the first or last is
kept, so I would change it to keep the first instance and warn about
duplicates.




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