Debian package contains malformed fields

[aiuto]

Description of the bug:

The debian package contains some fields which are wrapped to multiple lines instead of a long single line. This violates the specification and can cause other tools to fail.
The trivial fix is to update to rules_pkg release 0.7.0 or greater.
Please also backport to the 5.x release branch.

@smu-ggl

What's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.

No need to reproduce

Which operating system are you running Bazel on?

linux

What is the output of bazel info release?

5.x, head

If bazel info release returns development version or (@non-git), tell us how you built Bazel.

N/A

What's the output of git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse master; git rev-parse HEAD ?

N/A

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

No response

Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

PR to fix for head is being tested right now.

[meteorcloudy]

@aiuto Are you actively working on this, should this be P1?

[aiuto]

This is not a P1 unless other people really need a 5.x backport. I'll change it.
For everyone else, we can wait for the fix in rules_pkg 0.8.x and then update bazel.
That should be easy in the 6.x release timeframe.

[aiuto]

Moving back to P1 so I get nag mail.

[meteorcloudy]

@aiuto Do we really want to keep this as P1?

[aiuto]

Not a P1 at all.
I think this is fixed since we updated to rules_pkg 0.8.0. Since we don't have fixed by not verified, I'm going to close now and someone can add to the bug if the issues surfaces at head.