From 03f38e74984d93aa83c056893d414a5e3eac5763 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 18:17:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] man: clarify that applications must ignore unknown fields

---
 man/os-release.xml | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index 36046833..ff8fdf16 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>
 
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