From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:56:16 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=37c4ea69d563dd67c1230fabf88244a5e44701f7;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git

Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph

Bug#555978.
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diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 87b9795..99ab0ff 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2397,6 +2397,11 @@ Package: libc6
 	  <tt>libc6</tt>.
 	</p>
 
+	<p>
+	  Each paragraph may contain at most one instance of a particular
+	  field name.
+	</p>
+
 	<p>
 	  Many fields' values may span several lines; in this case
 	  each continuation line must start with a space or a tab.