Bug#533852: debian-policy: Allow Binary field to span over multiple lines

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -3276,7 +3276,9 @@ Package: libc6
>             commas<footnote>
>                 A space after each comma is conventional.
>             </footnote>. Currently the packages must be separated using
> -           only spaces in the <file>.changes</file> file.
> +           only spaces in the <file>.changes</file> file. The list can span

This should be changed to read "file, and may wrap."

> +           over multiple lines if needed, in that case the linefeed
> +           characters are treated like spaces.

The above is superfluous.

It cannot be separated just by newlines, because it needs a leading
space or tab, and Policy 5.1 already specifies how to do that.


Don Armstrong

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