Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit:

> > I still find it useful to grep and sed the Packages file.  I don't
> > see any advantage in allowing multi-line fields that would compensate
> > for that.
> 
> FWIW, dpkg does allow it. Debian policy is free to not allow it of
> course.

In my reading of policy, policy doesn't currently allow it.
Either those packages need to be fixed, or 
policy. I don't think 2% of packages not following policy
should be enough to change policy, considering the usefulness
of simple tools like grep and sed.


regards,
        junichi

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