[policy] 01/01: Add paragraph mentioning "cme fix dpkg-control".

[Doug Torrance]

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commit a2ccf050da4954f263942b0938fc74cac143d992
Author: Doug Torrance <dtorrance at piedmont.edu>
Date:   Wed Mar 30 22:13:51 2016 -0400

    Add paragraph mentioning "cme fix dpkg-control".
    
    As suggested by Andreas Tille [1].  Based on a similar paragraph from
    the Debian Med Policy [2].
    
    [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2016/03/msg00055.html
    [2] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html
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 debian-science-policy.xml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian-science-policy.xml b/debian-science-policy.xml
index dd316ee..6494139 100644
--- a/debian-science-policy.xml
+++ b/debian-science-policy.xml
@@ -109,6 +109,14 @@ web view of your package repository, namely "https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debi
 	<title><varname>Homepage</varname> Field</title>
 	<para>If an upstream homepage exists, the <varname>Homepage</varname> field should be set to the upstream homepage URL.</para>
       </sect3>
+      <sect3>
+	<title>Config::Model</title>
+	<para>It is a very good idea to use Config::Model to unify the formatting of <filename>debian/control</filename>. To do so make sure you have installed
+	<screen>apt-get install cme libconfig-model-dpkg-perl libconfig-model-itself-perl</screen>
+	and than you can simply call
+	<screen>cme fix dpkg-control</screen>
+	to get a properly formatted, sanity checked <filename>debian/control</filename> file. Please note that sometimes you need to call this more than once.</para>
+      </sect3>
     </sect2>
     <sect2>
       <title><filename>debian/copyright</filename></title>

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