On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > The fact that the tool authors have not seen fit to implement > some functionality has nothing to do with policy (despite what you > may think, policy is not dpkg documentation).
Policy is also not something that should document something that isn't implemented(by your own admission). And people reading fields is not a valid counter-argument. People can read *any* field, so you could argue that policy can document *any* field.