Ben Finney <[email protected]> writes: > Lars Wirzenius <[email protected]> writes:
>> * Have one copyright statement per Copyright field, and have multiple >> instances of the field. > This is my preference, and what I've been doing in my packages. Unfortunately, this creates real challenges for parsers. I've written a few RFC 5322 parsers, particularly for Usenet, and allowing repetition of headers always causes headaches in representation. You end up having to add another layer of data structure, with corresponding changes to everything that consumes information from the parser, if you don't want to throw away information. It's also a divergence from the Debian control file format, which allows only one instance of a field per stanza, probably for much the same reason. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
