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# `doc-base-document-field-not-in-first-line`

The `Document` field must be located in the first line of the given `doc-base` control file.

For performance reasons, versions 0.8 and later of `doc-base` parse only the first line of the file when unregistering documents.

Severity: | `error`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- The main section (Section 2.3.2.1) in the Debian doc-base Manual

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag