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



Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

>> 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>

> How does this differ from the simpler “… of a particular field.”?

I was trying to avoid the implication that we were saying:

    Architecture: i386
    Architecture: i386

was not allowed, but:

    Architecture: i386
    Architecture: amd64

was allowed.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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