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

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 07:39:19PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> Le Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 03:45:51PM +0200, Guillem Jover a écrit :
> > On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 11:32:14 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > >  
> > >  </p><p><taglist>
> > > +<tag>5.1</tag>
> > > +  <item>Control data fields must not start with the hyphen character
> > > +  (<tt>-</tt>) because it interferes with clearsigning control data files.
> > > +  </item>
> > >  <tag>5.4, 5.6.24</tag>
> > >    <item><tt>Checksums-Sha1</tt> and <tt>Checksums-Sha256</tt> are now
> > >    mandatory in <file>.dsc</file> files.
> > 
> > Strictly speaking the problem is with (all?) deb822 parsers that do
> > not dash-unescape clearsigned messages not with the possibly
> > dash-escaped control files, proper dash-escaping is there precisely
> > to avoid any interference from initial dashes.
> > 
> > And the reason to ban initial hyphens is because they do not make
> > sense in field names and I don't think it's worth updating all
> > parsers.
> 
> I will replace "because it interferes with clearsigning control data files" by
> "to avoid potential confusions when parsing clearsigned control data files that
> were not properly unescaped".

Pushed with that change, cheers.

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan