Bug#593909: debian-policy: Clarifications about the syntax of Debian control files.
On Sat, 04 Sep 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
Right, I've read your sentence too quickly, sorry.
Cheers,
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