Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > Le Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:29:33AM +1200, Lars Wirzenius a écrit :
>> For Disclaimer, and Comment if we add that, it might be helpful to have >> empty lines, but word-wrapping is definitely needed. Newlines are not >> significant. > some debian/copyright files contain extracts of correspondance between > the maintainer and an upstream person, for instance when the status of > some files need to be clarified. > Would they be removed, transferred to a non-parsable section of the file > (with a mechanism to be determined, for instance similar to DEP-3), or > would they be suitable for comment fields (if we introduce them). > In the case they are put in a comment field, ignoring newlines is likely > to make them difficult to read. I wonder if we should have some terminator for the machine-readable portion of debian/copyright, below which is free-form supporting material like complete e-mail exchanges and whatnot. That seems to me like the best way of handling the problem of attaching a complete e-mail exchange. Those exchanges aren't the actual license or copyright information, which can still be stated in a structured form. They're usually just defenses of why thet claimed license information is what it is (when it may, for example, contradict or supplement information included in the source files). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87iq38btm0....@windlord.stanford.edu