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Bug#998165: debian-policy: document and allow Description in the source paragraph



On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 05:32:19PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > The main "bad" consequence would be that Description would be exported
> > in the .dsc and as such end up in the Sources index.  This is probably
> > what we want anyway, but with all the people complaining about how big
> > the index is getting it's something to consider.  However it's also true
> > that realistically very few packages are going to make use of this
> > facility in the near future so it shouldn't really matter IMHO.
> 
> Hrm.  Could dak be modified to filter this out of the Sources file?


I'm sure it could, but I don't think we would want that?  As I wrote,
it's likely what we would like to have regardless, so that, say
`apt-cache showsrc` can bring some more information.


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