From: Russ Allbery Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:10:16 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Document that control field values are case-sensitive X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1f5ef555a32551da25a05ec1fcc383809faef3a6;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git 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 7c6439f..6099849 100644 --- 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 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:59:48 -0700 diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 84a9bfb..0bf8253 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -2379,6 +2379,8 @@ Package: libc6

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.