On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 10:53:13 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > dpkg errors out on empty lines inside a field value, but not blank > lines (those consisting only of spaces/tabs). Sorry, this was not clear. dpkg errors out when it expects only one stanza, otherwise an empty line (not a blank one) was considered as stanza delimited, as it should. regards, guillem