Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > Here is an updated patch, that contains the following:
> 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 (logical) line. Horizontal whitespace > + then the data/value associated with that field. The field > + name is composed of printable ASCII characters (i.e., > + characters that have values between 33 and 126, inclusive) > + except colon and must not with a begin with #. 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 > Apart from adding that fields names may not begin with #, I also changed > ‘US-ASCII’ for ‘ASCII’, since this is the vocabulary used by the Policy. And, for the record, seconding this combined patch. Thank you for all your work on this! -- 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/87bp6ze6ss....@windlord.stanford.edu
