From: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 02:30:41 +0000 (+0900)
Subject: Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f8d49a4954829de32d125faf8cc5db0836100b2

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

Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #706778
---

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0ef998e..b26d706 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
     Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
     Closes: #707077
+  * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
+    Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
+    Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+    Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+    Closes: #706778
   * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
     Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
     Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 138d320..dad8d23 100644
--- 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>
diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
index a167bcb..b024454 100644
--- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ picking your way through this list.
 Unreleased.
 
 </p><p><taglist>
+<tag>5.1</tag>
+  <item>Control data fields must not start with the hyphen character
+  (<tt>-</tt>), to avoid potential confusions when parsing clearsigned control
+  data files that were not properly unescaped.
+  </item>
 <tag>5.4, 5.6.24</tag>
   <item><tt>Checksums-Sha1</tt> and <tt>Checksums-Sha256</tt> are now
   mandatory in <file>.dsc</file> files.