Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.15.5.2
Severity: normal
According to the Debian Policy, “[h]orizontal whitespace (spaces and
tabs) may occur immediately before or after the value [of a control
file field] and is ignored there”. However:
$ apt-get source hello
[snip]
$ cd hello-2.4/
$ sed -i -e 's/Section:/Section: /' debian/control
$ dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc
[snip]
dpkg-genchanges -b >../hello_2.4-3_i386.changes
dpkg-genchanges: error: badly formed line in files list file, line 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-genchanges gave error exit status 9
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Jakub Wilk
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