Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

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Subject: Re: DEP-5: general file syntax
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:15:06 -0700
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20100821014420.GB380@merveille.plessy.net> (Charles Plessy's message of "Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:44:20 +0900")
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Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:

> I have another comment on details of the DEP's syntax, about the order
> of paragraphs. Policy's §5.1 does not specify that the order or
> paragraphs is important, while this is a crucial information in
> DEP-5. If this is not an omission in §5.1, I recommend that this
> additional requirement is mentionned in the DEP.

Order of paragraphs is significant in debian/control files.  It never
occurred to me that anyone would think that the order of paragraphs wasn't
significant.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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- DEP-5: general file syntax
  - From: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
- Re: DEP-5: general file syntax
  - From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Re: DEP-5: general file syntax
  - From: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
- Re: DEP-5: general file syntax
  - From: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>

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