Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes:
>> In that case, yes, we should say that the order of paragraphs is
>> significant, since indeed it always has been. Probably just by adding
>> the sentence "The order of paragraphs in the control file is
>> significant" to the end of the first paragraph.
> The source package stanza must come first, I can see why that's
> significant. But why does the order of binary package stanzas matter?
debhelper(7):
Note that if a package is the first (or only) binary package listed
in debian/control, debhelper will use debian/foo if no
debian/package.foo file can be found.
Also, dh_listpackages returns them in control-file order and some source
packages do rely on this. CDBS-based packages, last time I touched CDBS,
required listing shared library packages before binary packages that used
them in order for dh_shlibdeps to produce the correct results due to how
the packages were constructed (otherwise, dh_makeshlibs for the shared
library package wouldn't have run before dh_shlibdeps for the binary
package). I've seen other examples.
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