On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:18:55AM -0500, "John R. Daily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > 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. > > Interestingly enough, it's not immeidately clear that multi-line > description fields are permissable in the policy. Obviously, that > is the intent, and it is implied by 5.7.1, but not "stated".
Hm. There used to be a long section in policy (or was it the packaging manual?) that gave a formal definition of the syntax of description fields. Whatever happened to it? Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | "Don't underestimate the power of the force." | | -- D. Vader | \----------------- The Turtle Moves! -- http://www.lspace.org ----------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
