Bug#555978: debian-policy: Forbid duplicate fields in control files
Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com> writes:
> On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 18:18 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>> as a non-native speaker, I have difficulties with the use of 'may' in your
>> patch: if fields may be unique, they also may be not unique, so what is the
>> message in this sentence? It does not give me the impression that the goal
>> is to discourage the use of the same field name twice in the same paragraph.
>> How about “A paragraph should not contain data fields having the same name.”
> In this sense 'may' should be read as 'must', however I think that if it
> causes readability issues for non-native english speakers then the word
> 'must' should actually be used...
> "Each paragraph must contain at most one instance of a particular
> field name."
> Is that clearer?
Yes, indeed, that's what I meant; I'll go with that (assuming that doesn't
have a different clarity problem that I'm missing).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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