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Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?



On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 11:48:10 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2012-10-03 11:01, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > But then either all build infrastructure (and also lintian) don't use
> > debian/control, or all these tools tolerate that blank line (with the exception
> > of pbuilder).
> 
> Lintian's parser ignores empty lines before/between paragraphs.

As dpkg itself and dpkg-dev scripts do and have done (at least) as long
as the git repository goes (dpkg 1.1.4).

regards,
guillem


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