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# `required-field`

The named field is required by policy but not present in the package's primary control file.

Severity: | `error`
Experimental: | `false`
Renamed from: | `no-maintainer-field, no-architecture-field, no-description-in-changes-file, no-package-name, no-standards-version-field, no-version-field, package-has-no-description`

## See also

- Binary package control files – DEBIAN/control (Section 5.3) in the Debian Policy Manual

- Debian changes files – .changes (Section 5.5) in the Debian Policy Manual

- Standards-Version (Section 5.6.11) in the Debian Policy Manual

- list of all the affected packages
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