Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Jon Dowland wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote:
>> That is, so that the information can be extracted automatically and
>> presented by a program in various contexts, rather than having the
>> *only* way to get at the information be to read the debian/copyright
>> file in its entirety.
>>
> If machine-parsing the copyright file is desired, I suggest someone draft
> up some kind of control-field format or similar to aid parsing. Attempting
> to machine-extract useful info consistently from copyright files across the
> archive at the moment is surely going to be a very error prone task.
Like say, http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat ?
Don Armstrong
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