Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.1.0
Severity: normal
The policy for when it is allowed to declare a Pre-Depends is currently
split between two different sections in the policy:
Section 3.5 says:
"You should not specify a Pre-Depends entry for a package before this
has been discussed on the d
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 00:18:49 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> From: Charles Plessy
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:14:42 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] Clarification of the format of control files, Closes:
> #501930, #593909.
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transf
Charles Plessy writes:
> Here is an updated patch, that contains the following:
> Each paragraph consists of a series of data fields; each
> field consists of the field name, followed by a colon and
> - then the data/value associated with that field. It ends at
> -
Le Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:13:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> Charles Plessy writes:
>
> > how about simply paraphrasing the RFC 822/5832, which our the source of
> > inspiration ? In that case, the requirement for field names will be to
> > be printable ASCII characters, except colons.
>
>
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