Bug#666726: debian-policy: Clarify if empty control fields are ollowed or not
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 02:15:45AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 03:08:47PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit :
> > On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > >
> > > do you have examples of packages having empty fields in source package control
> > > files ? I have not found any. (In the sense that a field that only contains
> > > a substitution variable is not considered empty).
> >
> > They come from empty substitutions, yes.
>
> Then they are not empty: there is a big difference between "Depends:" and
> "Depends: ${foo}". I think that it would be very confusing if we would refer
> them as empty.
>
> Also, the bug started with a problem where "empty" means "nothing after the
> colon".
This bug is mostly to document a check in dak. Are you suggesting the check is
looking at the debian/control file and reject source packages with empty fields
?
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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