Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream

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Subject: Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream
From: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:24:49 +1200
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On pe, 2010-08-13 at 09:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> My opinion on this is that using # as a comment marker is already a
> diversion from RFC 5322 and I was surprised that dpkg had support for it.
> If we want this to be used outside of Debian, sticking strictly to the
> syntax for RFC 5322 headers seems like a good idea to me since we're
> staying with a format with known parsers.

I think I agree with Russ on this one. I'll propose a Comment: field
later.

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- Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream
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- Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream
  - From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream
  - From: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
- Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream
  - From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>

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