On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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
$ LANG=C dpkg-gencontrol -plibvte9 dpkg-gencontrol: error: syntax error in debian/control at line 29: duplicate field Architecture found It's checked at build time at least. > check is among those that ftpmaster uses to reject packages. I think > we should prohibit such duplicate fields in Policy as well. OK for me. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
