Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files
>>"Junichi" == Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> writes:
Junichi> In my reading of policy, policy doesn't currently allow it.
Junichi> Either those packages need to be fixed, or
Junichi> policy. I don't think 2% of packages not following policy
Junichi> should be enough to change policy, considering the usefulness
Junichi> of simple tools like grep and sed.
From what I recollect of the discussions way back when, the
intent is that each header field is logically a single line of
characters comprising the field name, the colon, and the field body.
For convenience however, the field body portion of a header field can
be split into a multiple line representation. The general rule is
that wherever white space can be folded, a CRLF may be inserted
before any WSP.
So, each header line is logically a single line, phisically it
may be broken into multiple lines with leading spaces.
I agree that either policy needs to be clarified, or changed.
If the consensus is to change the policy, then this is
underscores the dfifferences that policy may impose on the interface
that packages have with the packaging system, as opposed to dpkg
documentation.
manoj
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Date: 23 Feb 90 19:01:21 GMT From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal
Schwartz) format STDOUT = @<<< @<<<<<< @<<< @<<<<<, $Just, $another,
$Perl, $hacker
. for("Just","another","Perl","hacker"){eval"\$$_=\$_;";};write;
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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