Bug#684503: control.header yields paragraph-separating blank line in debian/control

2012-11-25 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > 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

Bug#684503: control.header yields paragraph-separating blank line in debian/control

2012-08-10 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Package: gnome-pkg-tools Version: 0.19.3 Severity: important Justification: breaks policy compliance of other packages The file control.header ends with an empty blank line. As the contents of that file is prepended to debian/control for packages making using of gnome-pkg-tools, this results in