[pacman-dev] [PATCH] libmakepkg: lint all arrays for empty values

[Morgan Adamiec]

On 28/10/2020 01:13, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 10/27/20 8:59 PM, Morgan Adamiec wrote:
>> On 28/10/2020 00:46, Eli Schwartz wrote:
>>> It remains unclear to me, why the ambiguity matters.
>>>
>>
>> I guess if you were to officially declare `Key =` means to set the key
>> to none then that would solve the issue of it being ambiguous
>>
>> Then again that would make `license=('a' '' 'b')` parse as only as
>> licence=(b) seems as it was cleared before.
>>
>> But funnily enough, if you build the package then pacman -Qi reports
>> only license a. Fun!
>
> I just checked this, but -Qip reported all the licenses, both before and
> after the '' license. Is this an observation about the current state of
> pacman, or about what the proposed semantics would be?
>

So as it turns out -Qip shows the licenses. Installing the package and
doing -Qi only shows a.

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