Bug#697237: [copyright-format] Specify that the file starts with the Format field.

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist

Hello everybody,

I just realised that in the description of the text/vnd.debian.copyright media
type, we indicate the following.

  Magic number(s):
  	Files usually start with the following string:
  	Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/

http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/vnd.debian.copyright

I wonder if it would be useful to mandate in the next revision that the
files must start with the Format field.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan