Re: [DEP-5] [patch] Syntax of the files.
Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> writes:
> I propose, in the description of the License field:
> * Remaining lines: Each non-empty line of the license text
> should be prefixed by a single space or TAB character. Empty
> lines should be replaced with a line consisting of a space or
> TAB followed by a period. (Empty lines lines contain nothing, or
> only whitespace
> characters.) If a debian/copyright file is formatted for
> display, the license text is not expected to be word-wrapped,
> but displayed as if it were program code, so that license text
> that uses one of the many conventions for plain text formatting
> will display OK.
Sounds fine to me, except that the parenthetical is missing some words.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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