Bug#697237: [copyright-format] Specify that the file starts with the Format field.

Jakub Wilk writes: > I'm used to think that order of fields within a paragraph shouldn't > matter. (Although admittedly it's not said explicitly anywhere in the > policy, and at least some popular implementations of control file > parsers do care about the field order.) The advantage of putting

Bug#697237: [copyright-format] Specify that the file starts with the Format field.

* Charles Plessy , 2013-01-03, 07:30: I just realised that in the description of the text/vnd.debian.copyright media type, we indicate the following. Magic number(s): Files usually start with the following string: Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-fo

Bug#697237: [copyright-format] Specify that the file starts with the Format field.

Charles Plessy writes: > I wonder if it would be useful to mandate in the next revision that the > files must start with the Format field. Yes, definitely. Good idea. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist

Bug#697237: [copyright-format] Specify that the file starts with the Format field.

Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Hello everybody, I just realised that in the description of the text/vnd.debian.copyright media type, we indicate the following. Magic number(s): Files usually start with the following string: Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging