* Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>, 2011-12-19, 10:12:
Of course, I agree that making a stand-alone License paragraph with an
extra Fiels field would be an horror. But I am inclined to think that
it is obvious enough that we do not need to constrain the syntax. With
the change you propose extra checks are needed while parsing.
I thought it was obvious when I implemented lintian checks, but it
turns out to not be so easy after all.
The problem is with paragraphs like this:
| Copyright: 2042, J. Random Hacker
| License: BSD-6-clauses
| Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
| modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
| are met: blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and blah.
In early DEP-5 drafts, Files field could be ommited in certain
circumstances, so this could have been a perfectly valid files
paragraph. But with the current DEP-5 version, if we allow any extra
fields, this suddenly becomes a valid stand-alone license paragraph.
Please see bug #652380 for a real-world example.
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Jakub Wilk
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