On ke, 2011-01-12 at 19:16 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Is that so?!? Then please clarify what the paranthesis below means: > > > Files: > > Required (not in header paragraph).
It means that in the first paragraph (called "header paragraph" for reasons I am not entirely sure of), the Files field is not required. The first paragraph applies to the package as a whole, rather than each file separately. In the other paragraphs, the Files field is required, and those paragraphs apply to each file separately. This is a subtle distinction, and may be too subtle for me, but seems to be important. > My understanding is that our previous special handling of an initial > Files: * section was changed into the header paragraph having an > implicit "Files: *" section with optional Copyright and License added. Yes, something like that happened. I thought things were clear at the time. If not, then it may be necessary to re-open this point. The history, however, matters less than the actual specification text. The people of the future will read the spec only. If you, or anyone, has a clarification or other change to propose, please do so with a diff to be applied to the svn version. At this stage, I don't want to make any changes that are not obvious minor bugs, and I do not want the burden of formulating further changes myself. -- Blog/wiki/website hosting with ikiwiki (free for free software): http://www.branchable.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
