Bug#593909: debian-policy: Clarifications about the syntax of Debian control files.
- To: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
- Cc: 593909@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#593909: debian-policy: Clarifications about the syntax of Debian control files.
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:15:30 -0700
- Message-id: <8739sctlz1.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
- Reply-to: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 593909@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <20100925072017.GA25657@merveille.plessy.net> (Charles Plessy's message of "Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:20:17 +0900")
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Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> From: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:15:05 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] Clarification of the format of control files, Closes: #501930, #593909.
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> - Distinguishes simple, folded and mulitiline fields;
> - Clarifies paragraph separators (#501930);
> - The order of paragraphs is significant;
> - Fields can have different types or purposes in different control files;
> - Moved the description of comments from §5.2 to §5.1;
> - Documented that relationship fields can only be folded in debian/control.
> ---
> policy.sgml | 111 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> 1 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
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This looks great to me. Seconded.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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