Dominique Dumont <d...@debian.org> writes: > On Wednesday 14 December 2011 08:31:17 Steve Langasek wrote:
>> And of course, anyone who cares about formatting to this degree can always >> add that extra space at the front of the line. I notice, in fact, that >> all our examples of multi-line Copyright: fields in the draft already do >> this. > Current parser relies on this extra space to distinguigh between a copyright > continuation and extra fields. > For instance, a parser will fail if a copyright field is written this way: > Copyright: 2008: John Smith > 2009: Angela Watts > because a parser cannot decide if "2009:" is a copyright continuation or an > extra field. That isn't the extra space that Steve is referring to. The space that indicates a continuation is taken for granted; Steve's point is that the examples in DEP 5 space the continuation lines over by several more spaces, which in a free-form field indicates unwrappable text (just as in the Description field for a package). -- 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/877h1xk98e....@windlord.stanford.edu
