Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.0
From upgrading-checklist:
* All fields, apart from the Uploaders field, in the control file are
supposed to be a single logical line, which may be spread over
multiple physical lines (newline followed by space is elided).
Policy 5.1:
Some fields' values may span several lines; in this case each
continuation line must start with a space or a tab.
[...]
Except where otherwise stated, only a single line of data is allowed
and whitespace is not significant in a field body.
Policy 5.2:
Many fields are permitted to span multiple lines in `debian/control'
but not in any other control file.
Please specify which fields in debian/control are allowed to span
multiple physical lines. "Some fields' values" and "Many fields" don't
tell us anything. Or is upgrading-checklist supposed to be normative?
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