On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 12:59:45PM +0200, Andreas Noteng wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: minor > > The policy does not clearly state if empty control fields in debian/control > are > allowed or not. dpkg accepts te use of empty fields, apt does not. > IMHO empty control fields are bad practice, and should explicitly not be > allowed. > > This bug is of relevance to checkinstall bug #666262
You are confusing the source package debian/control and the binary package DEBIAN/control. Empty control fields are valid in debian/control, but not in DEBIAN/control. dpkg-gencontrol take care of removing them when generating DEBIAN/control from debian/control, as I understand. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141122113043.GA24832@yellowpig
