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Bug#555978: debian-policy: Forbid duplicate fields in control files



Hi,

On 11/06/10 18:58, Russ Allbery wrote:
> dpkg-dev checks this at build time, so this definitely seems to be the
> right move.  Here is a patch.
> 
> Objections or seconds?
> 
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 87b9795..99ab0ff 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -2398,6 +2398,11 @@ Package: libc6
>  	</p>
>  
>  	<p>
> +	  Each paragraph may contain at most one instance of a particular
> +	  field name.
> +	</p>
> +
> +	<p>
>  	  Many fields' values may span several lines; in this case
>  	  each continuation line must start with a space or a tab.
>  	  Any trailing spaces or tabs at the end of individual
> 

Seconded,

Emilio

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