Bug#666726: debian-policy: Clarify if empty control fields are ollowed or not
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:05:05AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:23:17AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin a écrit :
> > Control: tags -1 + patch
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 11:19:15AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > > How about the attached patch, that adds "Its value must not be empty."
> > > after "The field ends at the end of the line or at the end of the last
> > > continuation line".
> > Seconded.
>
> Thanks Andrey.
>
> are there objections against forbidding empty control fields ? If not,
> would somebody eles second the patch ?
What about automatically generated control files and substvar ?
e.g.
Depends: ${misc:Depends}
where ${misc:Depends} resolve to the empty string ?
Does dpkg-gencontrol take care of that ? In that case we should not lead people
to believe that the above is incorrect.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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