Control: unmerge -1 Control: severity -1 normal Control: retitle -1 libdebian-copyright-perl: allow arbitrary fields
On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 22:42:52 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Package: libdebian-copyright-perl > Version: 0.2-1 > Severity: important > > I just tried out the tool license-reconcile today, against the > ghostscript package. It failed with this error: > > CopyrightParsing: Invalid field given (Files_Excluded) at > /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Copyright.pm line 122. > > Seems to me that it is Debian::Copyright library not supporting that > field. > > Specifically, the Files-Excluded field is now used by uscan as a way to > express files to exclude when repackaging an upstream tarball e.g. when > containing DFSG-nonfree parts. This will be fixed, and the merged bugs 781369, 816469 closed. And: > More importantly, however, DEP-5 format 1.0 explicitly allows *any* > field names, so Debian::Copyright should not fail even if stumbling on > completely alien fields: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#file-syntax this will be tracked as a separate bug, as it's more involved to fix. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: U2: Drowning man
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