Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > Can you provide a more precise pointer to this feature? Given that > the early revisions were done by wiki, I'm finding it non-trivial to > locate a specification for this. I see earlier revisions that seem to > include free-form text in the examples, but nothing that specifies how > this is meant to be parsed.
I think you have to go back most of the way to Sam's original proposal. See, for instance: http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat?action=recall&rev=27 | Also, it is important to allow any form of free text in the file, be | it before or after the machine-interpretable part. I therefore suggest | that fields can be interspread anywhere in the file. Lines that do not | start with a known field name or that do not start with a space and | follow a valid line should be ignored by an interpreter. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
