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

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>, 2013-01-03, 07:30:
> 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.

I'm used to think that order of fields within a paragraph shouldn't 
matter. (Although admittedly it's not said explicitly anywhere in the 
policy, and at least some popular implementations of control file 
parsers do care about the field order.)

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Jakub Wilk