Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.0.0
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The latest version of Debian Policy introduced the following sentence:
> Line breaks in an Uploaders field that spans multiple lines are not
> significant and the semantic meaning of the field is the same as if the
> line breaks had not been present.
"semantic meaning" is a pleonasm. I suggest the fix of removing the word
"semantic" to resolve this. See attached patch.
Thijs
--- policy.sgml.orig 2006-04-26 07:21:17.000000000 +0200
+++ policy.sgml 2006-05-03 18:53:34.000000000 +0200
@@ -2361,7 +2361,7 @@
will be permitted to span multiple lines and interpreting
a multiline Uploaders field shall be mandatory.
</footnote>. Line breaks in an Uploaders field that spans
- multiple lines are not significant and the semantic meaning of
+ multiple lines are not significant and the meaning of
the field is the same as if the line breaks had not been
present.
</p>
