On Thu, 02 Sep 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > I believe this is true of all binary relationship fields and all build > relationship fields as well. The dpkg-dev tools unfold all of those > fields when generating *.dsc, *.changes, and DEBIAN/control files, and > parers of those generated files do not have to cope with folded fields > (and I believe are known *not* to be able to cope with folded fields in > some cases). We should say that explicitly.
Just a minor remark: we modified policy not so long ago to allow the Binary field to be folded even in .dsc and .changes. So your assertion is not always true. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer ◈ [Flattr=20693] Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
