Bug#593909: Names of Fields in Control Files

2010-10-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:13:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: how about simply paraphrasing the RFC 822/5832, which our the source of inspiration ? In that case, the requirement for field names will be to be printable ASCII characters, except

Bug#593909: Names of Fields in Control Files

2010-10-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 00:18:49 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: From: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:14:42 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Clarification of the format of control files, Closes: #501930, #593909. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Bug#599944: 3.5 Dependencies / 7.2 Binary Dependencies - missing cross-reference to Pre-Depends policy.

2010-10-12 Thread Mattias Ellert
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Severity: normal The policy for when it is allowed to declare a Pre-Depends is currently split between two different sections in the policy: Section 3.5 says: You should not specify a Pre-Depends entry for a package before this has been discussed on the