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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-03-06 18:17:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-03-06 18:17:07 +0100 |
| commit | 03f38e74984d93aa83c056893d414a5e3eac5763 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c8ea7d965e822a590eeeca31cc60dd220ccd701 | |
| parent | edcf3b8900b8cf46ec18233508452b5bb745dc74 (diff) | |
man: clarify that applications must ignore unknown fields
| -rw-r--r-- | man/os-release.xml | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml index 36046833c2..ff8fdf16be 100644 --- a/man/os-release.xml +++ b/man/os-release.xml @@ -317,7 +317,8 @@ <para>Operating system vendors may extend the file format and introduce new fields. It is highly recommended to prefix new fields with an OS specific - name in order to avoid name clashes. Example: + name in order to avoid name clashes. Applications + reading this file must ignore unknown fields. Example: <literal>DEBIAN_BTS="debbugs://bugs.debian.org/"</literal></para> </refsect1> |