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| author | Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org> | 2019-09-29 10:45:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2019-09-29 10:49:07 -0700 |
| commit | dadc7e50f040bc9ecc25f8dfd444333801e087ee (patch) | |
| tree | 4b4d1855da51636830fd940d33f863668826afad | |
| parent | eb78533248031499c1c1fc16434d18782285ba2f (diff) | |
state syntactical restrictions for Files: field of copyright format
| -rw-r--r-- | copyright-format-1.0.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/copyright-format-1.0.xml b/copyright-format-1.0.xml index 0423202..b8df359 100644 --- a/copyright-format-1.0.xml +++ b/copyright-format-1.0.xml @@ -659,6 +659,17 @@ Copyright 2009, 2010 Angela Watts</programlisting> Exclusions are only supported by adding <varname>Files</varname> paragraphs to override the previous match. </para> + <para> + This syntax does not distinguish file names from directory + names; a trailing slash in a pattern will never match any + actual path. A whole directory tree may be selected with a + pattern like "foo/*". + </para> + <para> + The space character, used to separate patterns, cannot be + escaped with a backslash. A path like "foo bar" may be + selected with a pattern like "foo?bar". + </para> </section> </section> |