[tor-commits] [torspec/master] stop claiming there should be an extra newline in router descriptors

arma at torproject.org arma at torproject.org
Sat May 20 23:17:01 UTC 2017


commit c71d8c983a3c2716f67df040e59ff78076248d82
Author: Roger Dingledine <arma at torproject.org>
Date:   Sat May 20 19:15:59 2017 -0400

    stop claiming there should be an extra newline in router descriptors
    
    we stopped requiring it sometime between 2003 and now, and also we
    stopped adding it sometime between 2003 and now. closes ticket 6879.
---
 dir-spec.txt | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dir-spec.txt b/dir-spec.txt
index 2d4dda8..f96bfba 100644
--- a/dir-spec.txt
+++ b/dir-spec.txt
@@ -368,9 +368,7 @@
 
 2.1.1. Server descriptor format
 
-   Server descriptors consist of the following items.  For backward
-   compatibility, there should be an extra NL at the end of each router
-   descriptor.
+   Server descriptors consist of the following items.
 
    In lines that take multiple arguments, extra arguments SHOULD be
    accepted and ignored.  Many of the nonterminals below are defined in



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