Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:18:55AM -0500, "John R. Daily" <john@geekhavoc.com> was heard to say:
> > In my reading of policy, policy doesn't currently allow it.
> > Either those packages need to be fixed, or
> > policy. I don't think 2% of packages not following policy
> > should be enough to change policy, considering the usefulness
> > of simple tools like grep and sed.
>
> Interestingly enough, it's not immeidately clear that multi-line
> description fields are permissable in the policy. Obviously, that
> is the intent, and it is implied by 5.7.1, but not "stated".
Hm. There used to be a long section in policy (or was it the
packaging manual?) that gave a formal definition of the syntax of
description fields. Whatever happened to it?
Daniel
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