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Re: r1175 - in glibc-package/trunk/debian: . control.in



On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:28:17PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> >You have to unfold it for debian/control. Folding is only allowed for
> >the Description field.
> Where is such a policy defined? I have found nothing forbidding that in 
> the Debian policy and there is an example in section 7.1 using folding 
> for the Build-Depends: line.

5.1:
| Except where otherwise stated, only a single line of data is allowed and
| whitespace is not significant in a field body. Whitespace must not
| appear inside names (of packages, architectures, files or anything else)
| or version numbers, or between the characters of multi-character version
| relationships.

And chapter 7 don't change this requirement.

Bastian

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