Bug#666726: marked as done (debian-policy: Clarify if empty control fields are allowed or not)
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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: debian-policy: Clarify if empty control fields are ollowed or not
- From: Andreas Noteng <andreas@noteng.no>
- Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:59:45 +0200
- Message-id: <20120401105945.20798.97558.reportbug@laptop-debian.noteng.lan>
Package: debian-policy
Severity: minor
The policy does not clearly state if empty control fields in debian/control are
allowed or not. dpkg accepts te use of empty fields, apt does not.
IMHO empty control fields are bad practice, and should explicitly not be allowed.
This bug is of relevance to checkinstall bug #666262
Regards
Andreas Noteng
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nn_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nn_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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Source: debian-policy
Source-Version: 3.9.7.0
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 666726@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> (supplier of updated debian-policy package)
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:03:51 +0100
Source: debian-policy
Binary: debian-policy
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.9.7.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Description:
debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents
Closes: 106073 555979 666726 765499 770016 797478 799779 812663
Changes:
debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Policy: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
* Makefile: use gzip -n when compressing generated files.
* debian/control, Makefile:
- add missing Build-Depends on sp (opensp). Closes: #812663
- migrate to openjade and opensp.
* debian/rules: no more ship libc6-migration.txt. Closes: #797478
* Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
Closes: #555979
* Policy: [9.2.2] document 32-bit UIDs ranges.
Wording: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Closes: #765499
* Policy: [5.1] empty field values in control files are only permitted in
the debian/control file of a source package.
Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
Closes: #666726
* Policy: [4.9] debian/rules: required targets must not attempt network
access.
Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
Seconded: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>
Closes: #770016
* Policy: [12.3] recommend to ship additional documentation for package 'pkg'
in a separate package 'pkg-doc' and install it into /usr/share/doc/pkg.
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Closes: #106073
[ Stefano Zacchiroli ]
* autopkgtest: new document containing the specification of automatic,
as-installed (AKA autopkgtest, or DEP-8) package tests
Closes: #799779
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