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Re: License-Grant field in debian/control



Jonas Smedegaard:

> 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.

Then it's a bug in Debian::Copyright that I'll report. Thanks for
the reference.

I guess we can replace that call in dpt-upstream-repo for the
equivalent cme commands in this particular case.

Cheers!
Alex

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