[gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 5/5] glep-0074: Specify newline convention

[Michał Górny]

Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
---
 glep-0074.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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@g.o>,
         Ulrich Müller <ulm@g.o>
 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
 -----------
 
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