Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.3.0 Severity: wishlist Currently, so far as I can see, nothing in the general discussion of the syntax of control files prohibits repetition of the same field name in one paragraph. For example:
Package: foo Package: bar However, I believe this should always be a syntax error. Lintian has a check for this: Tag: debian-control-with-duplicate-fields Severity: serious Certainty: certain Info: One of the paragraphs of your debian/control contains the same field more than once. This can lead to unexpected behaviour in <tt>dpkg</tt> and <tt>apt</tt>. (I haven't checked the assertion about unexpected behavior) and this check is among those that ftpmaster uses to reject packages. I think we should prohibit such duplicate fields in Policy as well. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash debian-policy depends on no packages. debian-policy recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: ii doc-base 0.9.5 utilities to manage online documen -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
