Re: Bug#494714: dpkg-dev - dpkg-genchanges should fold lines
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
>
> > I don't know what this “field header” is that you're referring to. Do
> > you mean “field”? There's no header involved, only fields, AFAICT.
>
> The things we're talking about (a key/value pair, basically) is called a
> "header field" in RFC 5322. The header part is of course because the
> standard is written for e-mail, but our fields are essentially the same
> thing as an RFC 5322 header field.
Except, of course, without any header being involved.
For the sake of clarity, then, I hope we can drop the mis-application of
the term “header” and call these things what they are: just a “field”.
Bonus extra: not only is it clearer, it's shorter to type.
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Ben Finney
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