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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-03-06 18:17:07 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-03-06 18:17:07 +0100
commit03f38e74984d93aa83c056893d414a5e3eac5763 (patch)
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parentedcf3b8900b8cf46ec18233508452b5bb745dc74 (diff)
man: clarify that applications must ignore unknown fields
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<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>