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Re: Bug#593909: Names of Fields in Control Files



Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:

> how about simply paraphrasing the RFC 822/5832, which our the source of
> inspiration ? In that case, the requirement for field names will be to
> be printable ASCII characters, except colons.

> I propose the following change in the context the patch that I am
> preparing for clarifying the Policy's chapter about control files, in
> bug #593909.

It occurred to me, on reviewing your other patch as well, that this change
should probably also say explicitly that field names may not begin with #.

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


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