Bug#593909: debian-policy: Clarifications about the syntax of Debian control files.
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, 02 Sep 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I believe this is true of all binary relationship fields and all build
>> relationship fields as well. The dpkg-dev tools unfold all of those
>> fields when generating *.dsc, *.changes, and DEBIAN/control files, and
>> parers of those generated files do not have to cope with folded fields
>> (and I believe are known *not* to be able to cope with folded fields in
>> some cases). We should say that explicitly.
> Just a minor remark: we modified policy not so long ago to allow the
> Binary field to be folded even in .dsc and .changes.
> So your assertion is not always true.
I don't see any contradiction between what you said and what I said, so
I'm not sure what assertion you're disagreeing with. The Binary field is
not a binary or build relationship field.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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