Re: Status of Debian Policy

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Peter Tobias wrote:

> On Jul 6, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> > TOPIC 9: new control fields
> > ---------------------------
> [...]
> >  The "Original-Site" field contains the "primary URL" where you can get
> >  the upstream sources. If there are more than one site, the others
> >  should be listed in "Alternate-site-1", "Alternate-site-2", etc.
> 
> Why not make "Original-Site" a multi-line field? For example netbase
> and netstd have more than one upstream URL. These URLs should all be
> listed under "Original-Site" (they are not _alternate_ URLs/sites).

Does dpkg know how to handle multi-line fields or is "Description" a
special case?


Thanks,

Chris

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