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Re: syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright syntax error in section 4 after the tag license



On Wednesday 12 October 2011 08:17:39 Jan-Pascal van Best wrote:
> This hit me also and it took some time to figure out.
> - indent multi-line fields with a space
> - use 'space dot' - ' .' for empty lines in a multi-line field.

This formatting is also taken care of by DEP-5 parser/editor mentioned 
by Charles.

If you use the GUI, just cut'n'paste the original license text in the 
appropriate license line and config-edit will do all the required 
formating for you.

For more details, see 
  http://ddumont.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/debian-copyright-dep5-parsereditorvalidatormigrator-is-released/

All the best

Dominique
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