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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: debian-policy: Forbid duplicate fields in control files
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:11:32 -0800
- Message-id: <20091113001132.1579.90213.reportbug@windlord.stanford.edu>
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
Severity: wishlist
Currently, so far as I can see, nothing in the general discussion of the
syntax of control files prohibits repetition of the same field name in
one paragraph. For example:
Package: foo
Package: bar
However, I believe this should always be a syntax error. Lintian has a
check for this:
Tag: debian-control-with-duplicate-fields
Severity: serious
Certainty: certain
Info: One of the paragraphs of your debian/control contains the same
field more than once. This can lead to unexpected behaviour in
<tt>dpkg</tt> and <tt>apt</tt>.
(I haven't checked the assertion about unexpected behavior) and this
check is among those that ftpmaster uses to reject packages. I think
we should prohibit such duplicate fields in Policy as well.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
debian-policy depends on no packages.
debian-policy recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
ii doc-base 0.9.5 utilities to manage online documen
-- no debconf information
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Source: debian-policy
Source-Version: 3.9.0.0
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
debian-policy_3.9.0.0.dsc
to main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.9.0.0.dsc
debian-policy_3.9.0.0.tar.gz
to main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.9.0.0.tar.gz
debian-policy_3.9.0.0_all.deb
to main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.9.0.0_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 555978@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (supplier of updated debian-policy package)
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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
Source: debian-policy
Binary: debian-policy
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.9.0.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Description:
debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents
Closes: 224509 284340 328951 347581 442134 470633 478295 530687 547272 555009 555978 558430 560411 560839 562506 563425 566220 567845 569174 572253 575639 576594 577666 578854 579457 579461 582495 584521 584796 586163
Changes:
debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
.
[ Bill Allombert ]
* Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
looking .txt file.
Closes: #567845
* Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
* Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
and distribution license' (three times).
Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Closes: #566220
* extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
ranges.
Proposed by Santiago Vila
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Closes: #582495
.
[ Russ Allbery ]
* Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Closes: #578854
* Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Closes: #530687
* Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #562506
* Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Closes: #224509
* Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
Closes: #569174
* Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Closes: #284340
* Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
Closes: #478295
* Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
Closes: #555978
* Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Closes: #347581
* Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Closes: #575639
* Policy: Update Format control field documentation
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
Closes: #547272
* Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Closes: #560411
* Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
Closes: #579457
* Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Closes: #579461
* Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
* Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
* Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
* Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
* Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
* Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
* Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
* Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
README.html. (Closes: #584521)
* Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
* Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
* Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
* Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
* Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
"Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
(Closes: #586163)
* Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
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