On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 08:37:43PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > Bill Allombert <[email protected]> writes: > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:23:17AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 11:19:15AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > >> > How about the attached patch, that adds "Its value must not be empty." > >> > after "The field ends at the end of the line or at the end of the last > >> > continuation line". > >> Seconded. > > > > Would you second the attached version that was posted in this bug > > already ? > > Looks fine to me, so seconded. > > You might want to fix the commit message: it currently states the > opposite of the change, i.e. that empty values are *not* allowed in > source packages whereas that should be the only place where they *are* > allowed.
Thanks for noticing! I have updated the git branch to say Document that empty field values are only allowed in debian/control. Policy: [5.1] empty field values in control files are only permitted in the debian/control file of a source package. Wording: Bill Allombert <[email protected]> Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]> Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <[email protected]> Closes: #666726 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/20150209202610.GC8855@yellowpig

