On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 23:28:28 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Perhaps you are missing this sentence from section 4 of > <https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/>: > > > Extra fields can be added to any paragraph. > > That sentence reflect a design choice of the format to leave room for > expansion. A parser of the machine-readable format that chokes on > undefined fields is a broken parser. Unfortunately [0] true. And tracked as #738481 for libdebian-copyright-perl. Maybe someone should fix it :) [0] because this means that we can only check for /^\w+:/ or something and have to accept e.g. all funny typos of defined fields etc. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Cat Stevens: Come On Baby
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