Document that control field values are case-sensitive

Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
description says otherwise.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7c6439fb67e690fbacbc0470b9021060b8af68f0..60998496ff7c1e526e7eddebd2da77422a917f9a 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ debian-policy (3.8.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
     sensible-utils package, not by the base system.  Thanks, Clint Adams
     and Steve Langasek.  (Closes: #541537)
+  * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
+    description says otherwise.
 
  -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:59:48 -0700
 

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 84a9bfb368c48f3abdc76929b7929719e76d7ffe..0bf8253e31ba9cb10ed901d4dd6b1c645872f287 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2379,6 +2379,8 @@ Package: libc6
        <p>
          Field names are not case-sensitive, but it is usual to
          capitalize the field names using mixed case as shown below.
+         Field values are case-sensitive unless the description of the
+         field says otherwise.
        </p>
 
        <p>