Bug#697237: [copyright-format] Specify that the file starts with the Format field.
Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> writes:
> 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.)
The advantage of putting format first is that in some obscure situations,
it could help with backward compatibility with changes that otherwise
wouldn't be backward-compatible (like allowing a field to be duplicated
that couldn't be duplicated before, that sort of thing).
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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