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



Le Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 07:51:02AM +0200, Guido van Steen a écrit :
> 
> License: BSD-3-clause~FIZSH
> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
> met:

Dear Guido,

it looks like you miss to indent multi-line fields with one space.  For
instance, the above should be:

License: BSD-3-clause~FIZSH
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
 met:

Note also that empty lines need to be escaped by dots, like in the Description
field of Debian control files.

The following parser may be useful to you:

  http://ddumont.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/debian-copyright-dep5-parsereditorvalidatormigrator-is-released/

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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