Bug#148194: debian-policy: Clarification needed regarding multi-line fields
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.1
Severity: normal
This was discussed on the debian-policy mailing list under the
subject "Policy ambiguity regarding control files", first message
2002-05-14. Below is my initial message; note that there is a
relationship between this bug and #131583, since the "Description"
field is not explicitly defined as an exception to section 3.1.
"
There are 39 packages in the May 11 Sources file for woody that
have the Build-Depends field broken out onto multiple lines.
According to section 3.1 of Policy:
Except where otherwise stated only a single line of data is
allowed and whitespace is not significant in a field
body.
Section 7.1, which describes the syntax for relationship fields,
does not state that any of those fields are an exception to the
single-line rule, and thus build-depends would seem to be
required to be a single line.
However, the example at the end of section 7.1 shows a
build-depends line with an explicit line break.
"
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux daily.geekhavoc.com 2.2.19 #1 Sat Oct 20 18:09:49 EST 2001 i586
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages debian-policy depends on:
ii fileutils 4.1-10 GNU file management utilities
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