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Bug#666726: debian-policy: Clarify if empty control fields are ollowed or not



Le Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 08:15:03AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit :
> 
> Empty fields in debian/control must be valid in *source* packages.  It is a
> widely used feature of the dpkg-dev suite, and it has been around for a very
> very long time AFAIK.

Hi Henrique,

do you have examples of packages having empty fields in source package control
files ?  I have not found any.  (In the sense that a field that only contains
a substitution variable is not considered empty).

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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