On Mon, 14 Feb 2005,  wrote:

> I have no intention of using policy to "beat anyone on the head".
> To repeat, the dpkg maintainer _asked_ for policy guidance.  That is
> why he reassigned #254998 to debian-policy.  You reassigned it back
> to dpkg on the grounds that there was no "bug" in policy.  That is
> why I opened #294351 as a _wish_, hoping that there would be no
> opposition to a simple and desirable extention of a policy clause.

Does policy enforce output styles elsewhere?  Does anything parse the output
of these commands?

If not, then it doesn't really matter.

Maybe a best practices guide, but to mandate a particular style, hardly not.


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