Re: lintian: unknown-section unknown-priority

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

>      True, but programs may intentionally ignore case.  From the
> packaging manual:
> 
> 4.1. Syntax of control files
> ----------------------------
> 
> .  .  .
>  
>      Field names are not case-sensitive, but it is usual to capitalise the
>      fields using mixed case as shown below.
> 
> . .  .
> 
>      I have interpreted `fields' to refer to the _contents_ of the
> fields, not the `Field names', but I see it could be interpreted
> otherwise.  

Ah, an ambiguous phrase in the packaging manual.  Will be corrected:
s/fields/field names/.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg