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diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 2708242..dad8d23 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>
@@ -7021,15 +7021,14 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1)
 		  stable release of Debian supports <file>/run</file>.
 		</p>
 	      </item>
-              <item>
-                <p>
-                  The following directories in the root filesystem are
-                  additionally allowed: <file>/sys</file> and
-                  <file>/selinux</file>. <footnote>These directories
-                  are used as mount points to mount virtual filesystems
-                  to get access to kernel information.</footnote>
-                </p>
-              </item>
+	      <item>
+		<p>
+		  The <file>/sys</file> directory in the root filesystem is
+		  additionally allowed. <footnote>This directory is used as
+		    mount point to mount virtual filesystems to get access to
+		    kernel information.</footnote>
+		</p>
+	      </item>
 	      <item>
 		<p>
 		  On GNU/Hurd systems, the following additional
@@ -9010,8 +9009,10 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq
 		  package is purged.
 	      </item>
 	    </list>
-	    Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be
-	    removed by the package during upgrade.
+	    Obsolete configuration files without local changes should be
+	    removed by the package during upgrade.<footnote>
+	      The <prgn>dpkg-maintscript-helper</prgn> tool, available from the
+	      <package>dpkg</package> package, can help for this task.</footnote>
 	  </p>
 
 	  <p>