Commit: runtime(debcontrol): improve Debian syntax files

[Christian Brabandt]

runtime(debcontrol): improve Debian syntax files

Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/81f1c5d3846c04bfb77165639c7dfef9f7304815
Author: James McCoy <jame...@debian.org>
Date: Wed Jan 21 19:38:48 2026 +0000

runtime(debcontrol): improve Debian syntax files

Changes to debcontrol:
- Only use debcontrolEmail for Maintainer/Uploaders
- Add Build-Driver to debcontrolField
- Add Protected to debcontrolStrictField
- Remove Uploaders from the more generic region
- Add explicit support for highlighting build profiles
- Add explicit support for highlighting architecture specifications
- Fix URL for sections.822

Changes to debversions:
- Move plucky to unsupported

closes: #19228

Signed-off-by: James McCoy <jame...@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <c...@256bit.org>

diff --git a/runtime/syntax/debcontrol.vim b/runtime/syntax/debcontrol.vim
index e98a6d3f3..7b4d14062 100644
--- a/runtime/syntax/debcontrol.vim
+++ b/runtime/syntax/debcontrol.vim
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
" Maintainer: Debian Vim Maintainers
" Former Maintainers: Gerfried Fuchs <al...@ist.org>
" Wichert Akkerman <wakk...@debian.org>
-" Last Change: 2025 Jul 05
+" Last Change: 2026 Jan 20
" URL: https://salsa.debian.org/vim-team/vim-debian/blob/main/syntax/debcontrol.vim

" Standard syntax initialization
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ exe 'syn keyword debcontrolArchitecture contained '. join(g:debArchitectureKerne
exe 'syn keyword debcontrolArchitecture contained '. join(g:debArchitectureAnyKernelArch)
exe 'syn keyword debcontrolArchitecture contained '. join(g:debArchitectureArchs)

-" Keep in sync with https://metadata.ftp-master.org/sections.822
+" Keep in sync with https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/sections.822
" curl -q https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/sections.822 2>/dev/null| grep-dctrl -n --not -FSection -sSection / -
let s:sections = [
\ 'admin', 'cli-mono', 'comm', 'database', 'debian-installer', 'debug'
@@ -74,14 +74,32 @@ syn match debcontrolEmail "<.\{-}>"
" #-Comments
syn match debcontrolComment "^#.*$" contains=@Spell

+" Build profiles
+" Since there's no official spec for the field, use dpkg's parsing
+" (from BuildProfiles.pm) as the de facto spec
+syn match debcontrolBuildProfile "<\@<!<\s*!\=[-?/;:=@%*~A-Za-z0-9+.]\+\%(\s\+!\=[-?/;:=@%*~A-Za-z0-9+.]\+\)*\s*>" contained
+
+" Architecture specification for a package relationship
+let s:all_archs = join(g:debArchitectureKernelAnyArch, '\|')
+ \. '\|'
+ \. join(g:debArchitectureAnyKernelArch, '\|')
+ \. '\|'
+ \. join(g:debArchitectureArchs, '\|')
+exe 'syn match debcontrolArchSpec "\[\s*!\=\%('. s:all_archs .'\)\%(\s\+!\=\%('. s:all_archs. '\)\)*\s*\]" contained'
+unlet s:all_archs
+
syn case ignore

" Handle all fields from deb-src-control(5)

" Catch-all for the legal fields
-syn region debcontrolField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^\%(\%(XSBC-Original-\)\=Maintainer\|Standards-Version\|Bugs\|Origin\|X[SB]-Python-Version\|\%(XS-\)\=Vcs-Mtn\|\%(XS-\)\=Testsuite\%(-Triggers\)\=\|Build-Profiles\|Tag\|Subarchitecture\|Kernel-Version\|Installer-Menu-Item\): " end="$" contains=debcontrolVariable,debcontrolEmail oneline
-syn region debcontrolMultiField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^\%(Build-\%(Conflicts\|Depends\)\%(-Arch\|-Indep\)\=\|\%(Pre-\)\=Depends\|Recommends\|Suggests\|Breaks\|Enhances\|Replaces\|Conflicts\|Provides\|Built-Using\|Static-Built-Using\|Uploaders\|X[SBC]\{0,3\}\%(Private-\)\=-[-a-zA-Z0-9]\+\): *" skip="^[ ]" end="^$"me=s-1 end="^[^ #]"me=s-1 contains=debcontrolEmail,debcontrolVariable,debcontrolComment
-syn region debcontrolMultiFieldSpell matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^Description: *" skip="^[ ]" end="^$"me=s-1 end="^[^ #]"me=s-1 contains=debcontrolEmail,debcontrolVariable,debcontrolComment,@Spell
+syn region debcontrolField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^\%(XSBC-Original-\)\=Maintainer: " end="$" contains=debcontrolVariable,debcontrolEmail oneline
+syn region debcontrolField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^Build-Profiles: " end="$" contains=debcontrolVariable,debcontrolBuildProfile oneline
+syn region debcontrolField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^\%(Standards-Version\|Bugs\|Origin\|X[SB]-Python-Version\|\%(XS-\)\=Vcs-Mtn\|\%(XS-\)\=Testsuite\%(-Triggers\)\=\|Build-Driver\|Tag\|Subarchitecture\|Kernel-Version\|Installer-Menu-Item\): " end="$" contains=debcontrolVariable oneline
+syn region debcontrolMultiField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^\%(Build-\%(Conflicts\|Depends\)\%(-Arch\|-Indep\)\=\|\%(Pre-\)\=Depends\|Recommends\|Suggests\|Breaks\|Enhances\|Replaces\|Conflicts\|Provides\|Built-Using\|Static-Built-Using\): *" skip="^[ ]" end="^$"me=s-1 end="^[^ #]"me=s-1 contains=debcontrolVariable,debcontrolComment,debcontrolBuildProfile,debcontrolArchSpec
+syn region debcontrolMultiField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^X[SBC]\{0,3\}\%(Private-\)\=-[-a-zA-Z0-9]\+: *" skip="^[ ]" end="^$"me=s-1 end="^[^ #]"me=s-1 contains=debcontrolVariable,debcontrolComment
+syn region debcontrolMultiField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^Uploaders: *" skip="^[ ]" end="^$"me=s-1 end="^[^ #]"me=s-1 contains=debcontrolEmail,debcontrolVariable,debcontrolComment
+syn region debcontrolMultiFieldSpell matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^Description: *" skip="^[ ]" end="^$"me=s-1 end="^[^ #]"me=s-1 contains=debcontrolVariable,debcontrolComment,@Spell

" Fields for which we do strict syntax checking
syn region debcontrolStrictField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^Architecture: *" end="$" contains=debcontrolArchitecture,debcontrolSpace oneline
@@ -96,7 +114,7 @@ syn region debcontrolStrictField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^\%(XS-[-a-zA-Z
syn region debcontrolStrictField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^\%(XS-[-a-zA-Z0-9]\+-\)\=Vcs-Cvs: *" end="$" contains=debcontrolVcsCvs oneline keepend
syn region debcontrolStrictField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^\%(XS-[-a-zA-Z0-9]\+-\)\=Vcs-Git: *" end="$" contains=debcontrolVcsGit oneline keepend
syn region debcontrolStrictField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^Rules-Requires-Root: *" end="$" contains=debcontrolR3 oneline
-syn region debcontrolStrictField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^\%(Build-\)\=Essential: *" end="$" contains=debcontrolYesNo oneline
+syn region debcontrolStrictField matchgroup=debcontrolKey start="^\%(\%(Build-\)\=Essential\|Protected\): *" end="$" contains=debcontrolYesNo oneline

syn region debcontrolStrictField matchgroup=debcontrolDeprecatedKey start="^\%(XS-\)\=DM-Upload-Allowed: *" end="$" contains=debcontrolDmUpload oneline

@@ -113,6 +131,8 @@ hi def link debcontrolPriority Normal
hi def link debcontrolSection Normal
hi def link debcontrolPackageType Normal
hi def link debcontrolVariable Identifier
+hi def link debcontrolArchSpec Identifier
+hi def link debcontrolBuildProfile Identifier
hi def link debcontrolEmail Identifier
hi def link debcontrolVcsSvn Identifier
hi def link debcontrolVcsCvs Identifier
diff --git a/runtime/syntax/shared/debversions.vim b/runtime/syntax/shared/debversions.vim
index 1ba6c7a99..2548ddd35 100644
--- a/runtime/syntax/shared/debversions.vim
+++ b/runtime/syntax/shared/debversions.vim
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
" Vim syntax file
" Language: Debian version information
" Maintainer: Debian Vim Maintainers
-" Last Change: 2025 Oct 26
+" Last Change: 2026 Jan 01
" URL: https://salsa.debian.org/vim-team/vim-debian/blob/main/syntax/shared/debversions.vim

let s:cpo = &cpo
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ let g:debSharedSupportedVersions = [
\ 'oldstable', 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable', 'experimental', 'sid', 'rc-buggy',
\ 'bookworm', 'trixie', 'forky', 'duke',
\
- \ 'jammy', 'noble', 'plucky', 'questing', 'resolute',
+ \ 'jammy', 'noble', 'questing', 'resolute',
\ 'devel'
\ ]
" Historic version names, no longer under standard support
@@ -27,6 +27,6 @@ let g:debSharedUnsupportedVersions = [
\ 'trusty', 'utopic', 'vivid', 'wily', 'xenial', 'yakkety', 'zesty',
\ 'artful', 'bionic', 'cosmic', 'disco', 'eoan', 'focal', 'groovy',
\ 'hirsute', 'impish', 'kinetic', 'lunar', 'mantic', 'oracular',
- \ ]
+ \ 'plucky', ]

let &cpo=s:cpo