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Dpkg::Control::Hash: document how leading/trailing spaces are treated

Raphaël Hertzog 16 years ago
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@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ unchanged directly after the field name, supplementary lines are
 modified. Empty lines and lines containing only dots are prefixed with
 modified. Empty lines and lines containing only dots are prefixed with
 " ." (space + dot) while other lines are prefixed with a single space.
 " ." (space + dot) while other lines are prefixed with a single space.
 
 
+During parsing, trailing spaces are stripped on all lines while leading
+spaces are stripped only on the first line of each field.
+
 =head1 FUNCTIONS
 =head1 FUNCTIONS
 
 
 =over 4
 =over 4