From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 17:17:07 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: man: clarify that applications must ignore unknown fields
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man: clarify that applications must ignore unknown fields
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diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index 36046833c..ff8fdf16b 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>