Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.

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

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 138d320cd266b2dcab9ab3c99c17ef3e014bfdf2..dad8d23272a2ea75cf109563e836900ab26f9472 100644 (file)
--- 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>.
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