Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2016, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> >>The first paragraph of the control file contains information about the >> >>source package in general. The subsequent sets each describe a binary >> >>package that the source tree builds. All the binary packages have a >> >>corresponding paragraph, except for the possible automatic debug >> >>packages that do not require one. >> >> > There may be better ways to phrase this, but I think there is still a >> > need for some clarification about this. >> >> Seems reasonable to me. Seconded. > Seconded. I massaged the wording a bit. Here's what I committed for the next release: --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -2680,9 +2680,12 @@ Package: libc6 </p> <p> - The first paragraph of the control file contains information about - the source package in general. The subsequent sets each describe a - binary package that the source tree builds. + The first paragraph of the control file contains information + about the source package in general. The subsequent paragraphs + each describe a binary package that the source tree builds. + Each binary package built from this source package has a + corresponding paragraph, except for any automatically-generated + debug packages that do not require one. </p> <p> -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>