Le Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:30:04PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> writes:
> > On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 20:27:50 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
>
> >> I would like recommend that the Policy explicitly forbids the use of
> >> "-" at the start of a field name.
>
> > I concur completely, and I'm considering rejecting such fields from
> > dpkg 1.17.x, for the reason above.
>
> I also agree and am happy to second a patch.
Hello everybody,
how about the attched patch ? I named ‘-’ hyphen because it is how it is
consistently called in the Policy (but unfortunately not in the
machine-readable specification for Debian copyright files).
Guillem, Russ, given your very positive opinion about the change, shall I list
you as seconding this patch ?
Have a nice day,
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Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>From ea6b664a5cdf830663b182e290938732a6795edc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:30:41 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen
character.
Wording: Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net>
Closes: #706778
---
debian/changelog | 3 +++
policy.sgml | 2 +-
upgrading-checklist.sgml | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a9cd4df..9183b53 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
Seconded: Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org>
Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <x...@debian.org>
Closes: #720507
+ * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
+ Wording: Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net>
+ Closes: #706778
* debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 2708242..04d0146 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2542,7 +2542,7 @@ endif
composed of US-ASCII characters excluding control characters,
space, and colon (i.e., characters in the ranges 33-57 and
59-126, inclusive). Field names must not begin with the comment
- character, <tt>#</tt>.
+ character, <tt>#</tt>, nor with the hyphen character, <tt>-</tt>.
</p>
<p>
diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
index b58b740..883af61 100644
--- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ picking your way through this list.
Unreleased.
</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>5.1</tag>
+ <item>Control data fields must not start with the hyphen character
+ (<tt>-</tt>) because it interferes with clearsigning control data files.
+ </item>
<tag>5.4, 5.6.24</tag>
<item><tt>Checksums-Sha1</tt> and <tt>Checksums-Sha256</tt> are now
mandatory in <file>.dsc</file> files.
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1.8.4.rc3
