Conforms with Itself.

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

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 27082429c81303e3bdc0c51c2ac2c38e2892eff1..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>.
        </p>
 
        <p>
@@ -7021,15 +7021,14 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1)
                  stable release of Debian supports <file>/run</file>.
                </p>
              </item>
-              <item>
-                <p>
-                  The following directories in the root filesystem are
-                  additionally allowed: <file>/sys</file> and
-                  <file>/selinux</file>. <footnote>These directories
-                  are used as mount points to mount virtual filesystems
-                  to get access to kernel information.</footnote>
-                </p>
-              </item>
+             <item>
+               <p>
+                 The <file>/sys</file> directory in the root filesystem is
+                 additionally allowed. <footnote>This directory is used as
+                   mount point to mount virtual filesystems to get access to
+                   kernel information.</footnote>
+               </p>
+             </item>
              <item>
                <p>
                  On GNU/Hurd systems, the following additional
@@ -9010,8 +9009,10 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq
                  package is purged.
              </item>
            </list>
-           Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be
-           removed by the package during upgrade.
+           Obsolete configuration files without local changes should be
+           removed by the package during upgrade.<footnote>
+             The <prgn>dpkg-maintscript-helper</prgn> tool, available from the
+             <package>dpkg</package> package, can help for this task.</footnote>
          </p>
 
          <p>