Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> immo vero scripsit:
> 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.
Note that in the current policy documentation, carefully reading it
one would draw the conclusion that only multiple-line field is
"Description:", and other fields are disallowed.
There may be tools that we don't know that depend on this
behavior. All tools I know of work, but at least awk/sed/grep
don't, in their simplest forms.
regards,
junichi
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