Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.19.7
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz
The deb-changelog manpage defines the first line of the format as:
package (version) distributions; metadata
This line, and the subsequent description, doesn't make the following
clear:
- Is a package required to have at least one metadata field?
- If a package can have no metadata, does the first line require a
semicolon (immediately preceding the newline), or can it omit the
semicolon?
(I don't want to assume that the behavior of any particular
changelog-parsing tool describes the requirements of the standard; I'd
like to know what the standard allows/requires.)
Thanks,
Josh Triplett
