Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > 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 Seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bp70tm61....@windlord.stanford.edu
