Bug#627490: debian-policy: Description field specification is ambiguous

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:

> In any case I still think it might be a good idea to mention that the
> two first line types must contain at least one non space character.
> Compare it with the Changes, Files or Checksum field sections, where
> that's explicitly mentioned.

I've applied the following informative change for the next release:

--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -3302,6 +3302,7 @@ Package: libc6
              Those starting with a single space are part of a paragraph.
              Successive lines of this form will be word-wrapped when
              displayed. The leading space will usually be stripped off.
+             The line must contain at least one non-whitespace character.
            </item>
 
            <item>
@@ -3312,7 +3313,8 @@ Package: libc6
              will be allowed to trail off to the right. None, one or two
              initial spaces may be deleted, but the number of spaces
              deleted from each line will be the same (so that you can have
-             indenting work correctly, for example).
+             indenting work correctly, for example).  The line must
+             contain at least one non-whitespace character.
            </item>
 
            <item>

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