Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2007-09-23 17:22 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > The package should include in the copyright file the correct email > > address for whatever contact information the upstream author(s) > > use to receive queries from users and other people. > > This email address will be used by humans. Why does it have to be > machine readable ?
So that the information can be presented *to* humans *by* machines. That is, so that the information can be extracted automatically and presented by a program in various contexts, rather than having the *only* way to get at the information be to read the debian/copyright file in its entirety. -- \ "Buy not what you want, but what you need; what you do not need | `\ is expensive at a penny." -- Cato, 234-149 BC, Relique | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
