Le Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 01:35:00AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes:
>
> > I'm certainly OK with policy requiring field names to be ASCII.
>
> I think that's probably the right thing to do.
Dear all,
how about simply paraphrasing the RFC 822/5832, which our the source of
inspiration ? In that case, the requirement for field names will be to be
printable ASCII characters, except colons.
I propose the following change in the context the patch that I am preparing for
clarifying the Policy's chapter about control files, in bug #593909.
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index be0a505..5c72355 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2493,9 +2493,11 @@ endif
<p>
Each paragraph consists of a series of data fields; each
field consists of the field name, followed by a colon and
- then the data/value associated with that field. It ends at
- the end of the line or at the end of the last
- continuation line (see below). Horizontal whitespace
+ then the data/value associated with that field. The field
+ name is composed of printable US-ASCII characters (i.e.,
+ characters that have values between 33 and 126, inclusive),
+ except colon. The field ends at the end of the line or at
+ the end of the last continuation line (see below). Horizontal
whitespace
(spaces and tabs) may occur immediately before or after the
value and is ignored there; it is conventional to put a
single space after the colon. For example, a field might
Cheers,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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