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Bug#706778: debian-policy: Please explicitly forbid "-" at the start of Deb822 field names



Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 20:27:50 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:

>> I would like recommend that the Policy explicitly forbids the use of
>> "-" at the start of a field name.

> I concur completely, and I'm considering rejecting such fields from
> dpkg 1.17.x, for the reason above.

I also agree and am happy to second a patch.

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


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