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Commit 05264f16 authored by Guillem Jover's avatar Guillem Jover
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man: Clarify day-of-month format in deb-changelog(5)


Specify that the day-of-month accepts an optional leading zero, and
the amount of supported spaces.

Ref: #971977
Reported-by: default avatarAxel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
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......@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ B<Mon>, B<Tue>, B<Wed>, B<Thu>, B<Fri>, B<Sat>, B<Sun>.
=item I<dd>
Is a one- or two-digit day of the month (B<01>-B<31>).
Is a one- or two-digit day of the month (B<01>-B<31>), where the leading
zero is optional, but conventionally does not get omitted.
=item I<month>
......@@ -168,6 +169,9 @@ The “trailer” line with the maintainer and date details must be
preceded by exactly one space (U+0020 B<SPACE>).
The maintainer details and the date must be separated by exactly two
spaces (U+0020 B<SPACE>).
Each part of the I<date> can be separated by one or more spaces
(U+0020 B<SPACE>), except after the comma where it can be separated
by zero or more spaces (U+0020 B<SPACE>).
Any line that consists entirely (i.e., no leading whitespace) of B<#>
or B</* */> style comments or RCS keywords.
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