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Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files



Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, dpkg does allow it. Debian policy is free to not allow it of
course.

Wichert.

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