Bug#618013: debian-policy: please clarify where multi-line fields are allowed in control files
Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
Please don't close those bugs based on the resolution of this bug. Policy
currently says that the fields can't be folded, but some people have
requested that they be foldable, which is what #526713 is about. All that
resolving this bug would do is change the way in which Policy says that
they can't be folded, which doesn't address the bug.
We still have to decide whether the specification of the fields should be
changed so that they can be folded.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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