Bug#694384: Bug#694404: More info on cloned bug

2012-11-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi all, I think pbuilder’s strict interpretation is correct, especially as the wording of Policy (and RFC822) don’t provide for an empty line before the “first” paragraph, and think we should re-enforce that (literal) reading of Policy and have the packages be fixed and a check added to lintian in

Bug#694404: More info on cloned bug

2012-11-26 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi, I just cloned this bug originally filed against gnome-pkg-tools. The problem is that pbuilder applies a (possibly too) strict interpretation of policy when parsing control files that contain a blank line before the first non-empty paragraph. Thus build dependencies are not correctly detected,