Bug#618013: debian-policy: please clarify where multi-line fields are allowed in control files

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Hi,

Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> Le Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:38:06PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt a écrit :
>> 
>> I think the wording in chapter 5 (Control files and their fields) is
>> quite unclear where multi-line fields are allowed.  I am mostly
>> interested in debian/control in source files, so I'll just discuss this
>> here.
>
> I have proposed a general clarification of chapter 5 in bug #593909. You can
> find the patch in message 135.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/593909#135
>
> Do you think that it answers your questions ? If yes, how about merging the
> bugs ?  Otherwise, I can propose a revised patch.

They can be merged.  I missed #593909 when looking into the bugs
currently filed against debian-policy.

I will also close #526713 and #533495 once your suggested patch has been
applied to the policy as all user-defined fields and fields not defined
in policy (such as Vcs-*) will always be `simple' fields for which
folding is not allowed.  Please correct me if I am wrong here.

Regards,
Ansgar