Hi! On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 13:45:17 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.19.7 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-control.5.gz
> The deb-control manpage seemed like the right place to look to find out > if Debian control files can have trailing commas in comma-separated > fields (such as Depends). However, it didn't mention whether this was > allowed. That man pages documents the control file for binary packages. > (I'm hoping that it is, as that would improve the quality of diffs.) This got documented in deb-src-control(5) in 1.19.0, I think at a similar time when this got requested to be clarified in debian-policy. <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=05bbea38469409fd718e44cb550fabd2f1b073f5> I'm wondering what gave this false lead? (I have a pending and unfinished branch somewhere to move all the dependency syntax into its own man page, perhaps that would have helper here?) Thanks, Guillem
