Multiple Depends/Recommends/[…] in a control file?
- by miK
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)