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Re: Bug#494714: dpkg-dev - dpkg-genchanges should fold lines



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.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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