From 33ce73f66c9e35b16624db17079cb76e25b2c846 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:03:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] man/os-release: Document that blank lines are permitted
 (#8777)

Fixes: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/8773
---
 man/os-release.xml | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index de97dc50cd..ff85ef5f1b 100644
--- a/man/os-release.xml
+++ b/man/os-release.xml
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@
     shell style. All strings should be in UTF-8 format, and
     non-printable characters should not be used. It is not supported
     to concatenate multiple individually quoted strings. Lines
-    beginning with "#" shall be ignored as comments.</para>
+    beginning with "#" shall be ignored as comments. Blank lines are
+    permitted and ignored.</para>
 
     <para>The file <filename>/etc/os-release</filename> takes
     precedence over <filename>/usr/lib/os-release</filename>.