> I was always under the impression that order of fields within a single > paragraph doesn't matter in Debian control files.
Correct. But if you add "Extra fields", you may end up in trouble. Consider the following (admitedly contrived) copyright paragraph: Files: this license applies to any of them License: GPL-1+ GPL-1+ yada yada Is it: - a "Files" paragraph with a License field ? - a "License" paragraph with an extra "Files" field ? As a human, I have an idea. But I don't know how a parser can resolve such ambuguity. Since DEP-5 does not forbid this kind of ambiguity, DEP-5 parser can be improved to be more tolerant, but it cannot be bullet-proof. All the best Dominique -- http://config-model.wiki.sourceforge.net/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/ddumont -o- http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109271621.08722....@debian.org