Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit:
> > I still find it useful to grep and sed the Packages file. I don't
> > see any advantage in allowing multi-line fields that would compensate
> > for that.
>
> FWIW, dpkg does allow it. Debian policy is free to not allow it of
> course.
In my reading of policy, policy doesn't currently allow it.
Either those packages need to be fixed, or
policy. I don't think 2% of packages not following policy
should be enough to change policy, considering the usefulness
of simple tools like grep and sed.
regards,
junichi
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