Dear Thorsten,
Il 16/06/24 23:39, Thorsten Alteholz ha scritto:
On Fri, 14 Jun 2024, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
On 6/14/24 8:00 PM, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
according to policy (5.2) the source package stanza should not have a
Description:
Policy doesn't specify that Source stanza cannot have a Description.
Policy does in 5.2: it defines a list of fields in the source package
stanza. Description: is not part of that list.
dpkg supports this since 1.19.0 as documented in deb-substvars(5).
I don't read any man page or dig into all bugs before accepting a
package. I rely on the contents of the Debian Policy document.
Unfortunately today I had to learn that this is an unreliable source of
information.
End of 2021 it was requested in #998165 that Description: should be
allowed. Sadly work on this bug was stalled and the change doesn't make
it into policy. So blame this REJECT on the idle policy editors.
Thorsten
Thanks for digging into it and for reviewing/accepting the package.
kind regards
--
Antonio Valentino
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