Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.6.1 Severity: normal This was discussed on the debian-policy mailing list under the subject "Policy ambiguity regarding control files", first message 2002-05-14. Below is my initial message; note that there is a relationship between this bug and #131583, since the "Description" field is not explicitly defined as an exception to section 3.1.
" There are 39 packages in the May 11 Sources file for woody that have the Build-Depends field broken out onto multiple lines. According to section 3.1 of Policy: Except where otherwise stated only a single line of data is allowed and whitespace is not significant in a field body. Section 7.1, which describes the syntax for relationship fields, does not state that any of those fields are an exception to the single-line rule, and thus build-depends would seem to be required to be a single line. However, the example at the end of section 7.1 shows a build-depends line with an explicit line break. " -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux daily.geekhavoc.com 2.2.19 #1 Sat Oct 20 18:09:49 EST 2001 i586 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US Versions of packages debian-policy depends on: ii fileutils 4.1-10 GNU file management utilities -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
