[...] > 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. > [...]
This is now being discussed in #694384. A proposal raised twice so far states that ideally both pbuilder and gnome-pkg-tools are fixed. I have thus cloned this bug for pbuilder people to work on it, but this still ask gnome-pkg-tools to be fixed until policy explicitly permits such control files. Thanks a lot, Michael
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