rings, interpret them in this encoding.
        (All values are given back as unicode objects, so an encoding is
        necessary in order to properly interpret the strings.)

    :param strict: Dict controlling the strictness of the internal parser
        to permit tuning of its behaviour between "generous in what it
        accepts" and "strict conformance". Known keys are described below.

    *Internal parser tuning*

    - `whitespace-separates-paragraphs`: (default: `True`)
      Blank lines between paragraphs should not have any whitespace in them
      at all. However:

      - Policy §5.1 permits `debian/control` in source packages to separate
        packages with lines containing whitespace to allow human edited
        files to have stray whitespace. Failing to honour this breaks
        tools such as
        `wrap-and-sort <https://manpages.debian.org/wrap-and-sort>`_
        (see, for example,
        `Debian Bug 715558 <https://bugs.debian.org/715558/>`_).
      - `apt_pkg.TagFile` accepts whitespace-only lines within the
        `Description` field; strictly matching the behaviour of apt's
        Deb822 parser requires setting this key to `False` (as is done
        by default for :class:`Sources` and :class:`Packages`.
        (see, for example,
        `Debian Bug 913274 <https://bugs.debian.org/913274/>`_).

    Note that these tuning parameter are only for the parser that is
    internal to `Deb822` and do not apply to python-apt's apt_pkg.TagFile
    parser which would normally be used for Packages and Sources files.
    NrU