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Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files



On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:28:07PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> I think the restriction existed because there were tools that
> didn't support te line breaks.

I still find it useful to grep and sed the Packages file.  I don't
see any advantage in allowing multi-line fields that would compensate
for that.

Richard Braakman


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