Names of Fields in Control Files

2010-09-25 Thread Jonathan Yu
Dear Debian dpkg Maintainers: I believe that all control field names currently in use are restricted to the ASCII character set. Debian Policy currently specifies that the files are to be UTF-8 encoded, but does not mention whether any control field names could be, in the future, encoded in anyth

Bug#593909: debian-policy: Clarifications about the syntax of Debian control files.

2010-09-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:42:00PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > The reason why I tried to fit the folded and multiline fields under the > > same definition of a logical line is that otherwise there was no > > definition of how to construct a multiline field. How ab