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+# dpkg manual page - deb822(5)
+#
+# Copyright © 1995-1996 Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
+# Copyright © 2015 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+#
+# This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+=encoding utf8
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+deb822 - Debian RFC822 control data format
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+The package management system manipulates data represented in a common
+format, known as I<control data>, stored in I<control files>.
+Control files are used for source packages, binary packages and the
+B<.changes> files which control the installation of uploaded
+files (B<dpkg>'s internal databases are in a similar format).
+
+=head1 SYNTAX
+
+A control file consists of one or more stanzas of fields (the stanzas
+sometimes used to be referred to as paragraphs).
+The stanzas are separated by empty lines.
+Parsers may accept lines consisting solely of U+0020 B<SPACE> and
+U+0009 B<TAB> as stanza separators, but control files should use
+empty lines.
+Some control files allow only one stanza; others allow several, in which
+case each stanza usually refers to a different package.
+(For example, in source packages, the first stanza refers to the source
+package, and later stanzas refer to binary packages generated from the
+source.)
+The ordering of the stanzas in control files is significant.
+
+Each stanza consists of a series of data fields.
+Each field consists of the field name followed by a colon
+(U+003A ‘B<:>’), and then the data/value associated with that field.
+The field name is composed of US-ASCII characters excluding control
+characters, space, and colon (i.e., characters in the ranges
+U+0021 ‘B<!>’ through U+0039 ‘B<9>’, and
+U+003B ‘B<;>’ through U+007E ‘B<~>’, inclusive).
+Field names must not begin with the comment character
+(U+0023 ‘B<#>’), nor with the hyphen character
+(U+002D ‘B<->’).
+
+The field ends at the end of the line or at the end of the last continuation
+line (see below).
+Horizontal whitespace (U+0020 B<SPACE> and U+0009 B<TAB>) may occur
+immediately before or after the value and is ignored there; it is conventional
+to put a single space after the colon.
+For example, a field might be:
+
+=over
+
+ Package: dpkg
+
+=back
+
+the field name is B<Package> and the field value B<dpkg>.
+
+Empty field values are only permitted in source package control files
+(I<debian/control>).
+Such fields are ignored.
+
+A stanza must not contain more than one instance of a particular field name.
+
+There are three types of fields:
+
+=over
+
+=over
+
+=item B<simple>
+
+The field, including its value, must be a single line.
+Folding of the field is not permitted.
+This is the default field type if the definition of the field does not
+specify a different type.
+
+=item B<folded>
+
+The value of a folded field is a logical line that may span several lines.
+The lines after the first are called continuation lines and must start with
+a U+0020 B<SPACE> or a U+0009 B<TAB>.
+Whitespace, including any newlines, is not significant in the field values
+of folded fields.
+
+This folding method is similar to RFC5322, allowing control files that
+contain only one stanza and no multiline fields to be read by parsers
+written for RFC5322.
+
+=item B<multiline>
+
+The value of a multiline field may comprise multiple continuation lines.
+The first line of the value, the part on the same line as the field name,
+often has special significance or may have to be empty.
+Other lines are added following the same syntax as the continuation lines
+of the folded fields.
+Whitespace, including newlines, is significant in the values of multiline
+fields.
+
+=back
+
+Whitespace must not appear inside names (of packages, architectures, files
+or anything else) or version numbers, or between the characters of
+multi-character version relationships.
+
+The presence and purpose of a field, and the syntax of its value may differ
+between types of control files.
+
+Field names are not case-sensitive, but it is usual to capitalize the field
+names using mixed case as shown below.
+Field values are case-sensitive unless the description of the field says
+otherwise.
+
+Stanza separators (empty lines) and lines consisting only of
+U+0020 B<SPACE> and U+0009 B<TAB>, are not allowed within field
+values or between fields.
+Empty lines in field values are usually escaped by representing them by a
+U+0020 B<SPACE> followed by a dot (U+002E ‘B<.>’).
+
+Lines starting with U+0023 ‘B<#>’, without any preceding whitespace
+are comments lines that are only permitted in source package control files
+(I<debian/control>) and in L<deb-origin(5)> files.
+These comment lines are ignored, even between two continuation lines.
+They do not end logical lines.
+
+All control files must be encoded in UTF-8.
+
+=back
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+B<RFC822>,
+B<RFC5322>.