On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 20:27:50 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: minor
> Policy ยง5.1 states that: > > """ > [...] The field name is 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, #. > """ > > This suggests that (e.g.) > > "-Field: value" > > is a valid field. Or (a bit more screwed): > > "-----BEGIN: PGP SIGNATURE-----" > > would be the field "-----BEGIN" with a value of "PGP SIGNATURE-----". Which is problematic because clearsigned messages need to be dash-escaped, and I don't think any of our tools parsing these will unescape them. Please see #696234 for a lengthier discussion on this, where I wrongly thought dpkg/dpkg-dev already rejected those, but I've checked now and it does not. :/ > I would like recommend that the Policy explicitly forbids the use of > "-" at the start of a field name. I concur completely, and I'm considering rejecting such fields from dpkg 1.17.x, for the reason above. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
