Bug#148194: debian-policy: Clarification needed regarding multi-line fields
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:39:27AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
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> Proposal
> ========
>
> I'd like «Section 5.2. "Source package control files -- `debian/control'"»
> to specify clearly[0] that the following fields contain logical lines:
>
> Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep, Build-Conflicts, Build-Conflicts-Indep,
> Pre-Depends, Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Conflicts, Replaces, Provides,
> Enhances, Uploaders
>
> Those fields will be unwrapped by newer dpkg scripts when generating
> the .deb, .dsc and .changes files, so the few tools that may not support
> logical lines will be able to cope just fine.
>
> I've started doing this for some time now with almost all of my
> packages, partially breaking policy (I say partially due to dpkg
> unwrapping the lines, and also due to the current ambiguous situation),
Does the current stable dpkg also support this format already?
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