Document that empty field values are only allowed in debian/control.

[debian/debian-policy.git] / policy.sgml

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 947a1e1561e4d80d3435c00103d8cbee8e05d1b2..4adee0b00da29910a0008d6aa549655e4d3a6383 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2558,7 +2558,9 @@ Package: libc6
          the field name is <tt>Package</tt> and the field value
          <tt>libc6</tt>.
        </p>
-
+        <p> Empty field values are only permitted in source package control files
+         (<file>debian/control</file>). Such fields are ignored.
+        </p>
        <p>
          A paragraph must not contain more than one instance of a
          particular field name.
@@ -2701,6 +2703,7 @@ Package: libc6
          file. These tools are responsible for removing the line
          breaks from such fields when using fields from
          <file>debian/control</file> to generate other control files.
+         They are also responsible for discarding empty fields.
        </p>
 
        <p>