Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote: > Here is the proposed patch. Now looking for seconds. IIRC, only one person has so far seconded this. I've not been involved here, but it really sounds sensible. Therefore I second: > > --- policy.sgml.orig 2005-12-24 13:41:09.000000000 -0800 > +++ policy.sgml 2006-04-06 16:34:13.000000000 -0700 > @@ -2160,7 +2160,11 @@ > <prgn>dpkg-genchanges</prgn> to generate the > <tt>.changes</tt> file to accompany the upload, and by > <prgn>dpkg-source</prgn> when it creates the <file>.dsc</file> > - source control file as part of a source archive. > + source control file as part of a source archive. Many fields are > + permitted to span multiple lines in <file>debian/control</cite> > + but not in any other control file. These tools are responsible > + for removing the line breaks from such fields when using fields > + from <file>debian/control</file> to generate other control files. > </p> > > <p> > @@ -2332,6 +2336,20 @@ > multiple entries should be comma separated. This is an > optional field. > </p> > + > + <p> > + Any parser that interprets the Uploaders field in > + <file>debian/control</file> should permit it to span multiple > + lines<footnote> > + In the future, the Uploaders field in > + <file>debian/control</file> (but not other control files) > + will be permitted to span multiple lines and interpreting > + a multiline Uploaders field shall be mandatory. > + </footnote>. Line breaks in an Uploaders field that spans > + multiple lines are not significant and the semantic meaning of > + the field is the same as if the line breaks had not been > + present. > + </p> > </sect1> > > <sect1 id="f-Changed-By"> > @@ -3822,6 +3840,15 @@ > </p> > > <p> > + When these fields are used in the <file>debian/control</file> > + file, line breaks are permitted before any whitespace > + character. Line breaks are not permitted in these fields when > + used in any other control file. For consistency it is > + recommended that line breaks only be used before the whitespace > + following a comma. > + </p> > + > + <p> > For example, a list of dependencies might appear as: > <example compact="compact"> > Package: mutt > > > -- > Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> This. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
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