Package: gnome-pkg-tools Version: 0.19.3 Severity: important Justification: breaks policy compliance of other packages
The file control.header ends with an empty blank line. As the contents of that file is prepended to debian/control for packages making using of gnome-pkg-tools, this results in <comments> <blank line> <actual debian/control contents> By policy, blank lines separate paragraphs, comments are discarded, so we end up with an empty first paragraph. Policy, however, requires that the *first* paragraph contains essential package information (Policy 5.2). The current setup breaks at least pbuilder's build-dependency parsing, which relies on this fact. If you believe that an empty first paragraph should not be considered a paragraph, please reassign to policy, asking for clarification that it's the *first non-empty* paragraph. Best, Michael
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