Package: debian-policy Severity: minor The policy does not clearly state if empty control fields in debian/control are allowed or not. dpkg accepts te use of empty fields, apt does not. IMHO empty control fields are bad practice, and should explicitly not be allowed.
This bug is of relevance to checkinstall bug #666262 Regards Andreas Noteng -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=nn_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nn_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
