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Clarification of the format of control files, Closes: #501930, #593909.
authorCharles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:14:42 +0000 (00:14 +0900)
committerRuss Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:15:44 +0000 (00:15 -0700)
commit0ecd2cf30502d7e428b3ee6637c1ca5909fdefaa
treec44ffa219f2afe1cf54fca6c8a5d0142e776f485
parent3635b8fc207b04dee283409c786633669f8c422e
Clarification of the format of control files, Closes: #501930, #593909.

 - Specifies field names similarly to RFC 822/5832;
 - Distinguishes simple, folded and mulitiline fields;
 - Clarifies paragraph separators (#501930);
 - The order of paragraphs is significant;
 - Fields can have different types or purposes in different control files;
 - Moved the description of comments from §5.2 to §5.1;
 - Documented that relationship fields can only be folded in debian/control.
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