[…] in a control file?

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Published on 2011-02-18T19:06:45Z Indexed on 2011/02/18 23:34 UTC
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Is it possible to have multiple lines for any type of field in a dpkg control file? This is not about line continuation, but e.g. Depends interspersed with Recommends like so:

Depends: git, etckeeper, apt-file
Recommends: equivs
Depends: mplayer, pidgin, dlocate, pwsafe, ciso
Recommends: aria2

And so on. Is this allowed, is it unspecified (and some tool is going to cough on it) or is it explicitly forbidden? (Couldn't find anything in debian-policy, either)

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