Bug#684503: control.header yields paragraph-separating blank line in debian/control

[Michael Tautschnig]

[...]
> By policy, blank lines separate paragraphs, comments are discarded, so we end up
> with an empty first paragraph. Policy, however, requires that the *first*
> paragraph contains essential package information (Policy 5.2).
> 
> The current setup breaks at least pbuilder's build-dependency parsing, which
> relies on this fact.
> 
> If you believe that an empty first paragraph should not be considered a
> paragraph, please reassign to policy, asking for clarification that it's the
> *first non-empty* paragraph.
> 
[...]

This is now being discussed in #694384. A proposal raised twice so far states
that ideally both pbuilder and gnome-pkg-tools are fixed. I have thus cloned
this bug for pbuilder people to work on it, but this still ask gnome-pkg-tools
to be fixed until policy explicitly permits such control files.

Thanks a lot,
Michael

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