Re: Debian Policy: Sections
Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i.yu@gmail.com> writes:
> I was reading the Debian Policy Manual 2.4, which discusses the
> various sections that packages may be classified as. However, I can't
> tell if section names should be lowercase, or if they are
> case-insensitive.
>
> Presumably case shouldn't matter, but I think there should be
> clarification for future versions of the policy either way.
Field values are case-sensitive with only a very small number of
exceptions (checksums for files I suspect are case-insensitive, for
instance). I don't want to note that separately for each field, but I
suppose we could say something along those lines in the general field
syntax section.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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