bpack_1.1.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Thorsten Alteholz]

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