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Bug#88651: debian-policy: Section 3.2 refers to packaging manual



On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:42:18PM -0800, C.M. Connelly wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.5.2.0
> Severity: normal
> 
> Section 3.2 begins:
> 
>    3.2 List of fields 
> 
>    This list here is not supposed to be exhaustive. Most fields
>    are dealt with elsewhere in this document and in the packaging
>    manual.
> 
> Because the packaging manual is supposed to be incorporated into
> the policy manual, this reference should be changed to point to
> the correct location within the policy manual.
> 
> Also, ``This list here''?  How about ``The list given here''?  (I
> can expand on why the current language is horrible if you'd like.)

Noted.

> Finally, I still have packaging-manual installed on my system --
> the current debian-policy package recommends packaging-manual (Bug
> #86507); I also don't see any conflicts line that would require
> the system to remove packaging-manual.

Already fixed in CVS.

   Julian

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