[Python-checkins] peps: Metadata 1.3 tweaks

[daniel.holth]

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/75474fb879d3
changeset:   4562:75474fb879d3
user:        Daniel Holth <dholth at fastmail.fm>
date:        Fri Oct 19 19:44:20 2012 -0400
summary:
  Metadata 1.3 tweaks

files:
  pep-0426.txt |  29 ++++++++++++++---------------
  1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)


diff --git a/pep-0426.txt b/pep-0426.txt
--- a/pep-0426.txt
+++ b/pep-0426.txt
@@ -155,11 +155,11 @@
 field as-is.  This means that authors should be conservative in
 the markup they use.
 
-To support empty lines and lines with indentation with respect to
-the RFC 822 format, any CRLF character has to be suffixed by 7 spaces
-followed by a pipe ("|") char. As a result, the Description field is
-encoded into a folded field that can be interpreted by RFC822
-parser [2]_.
+To support empty lines and lines with indentation and maintain
+compatibility with ``email.parser.Parser()``, any CRLF character has to
+be suffixed by 7 spaces followed by a pipe ("|") char. As a result, the
+Description field is encoded into a folded field that can be interpreted
+by RFC822 parser [2]_.
 
 Example::
 
@@ -221,9 +221,9 @@
 Author-email (optional)
 :::::::::::::::::::::::
 
-A string containing the author's e-mail address.  It can contain
-a name and e-mail address in the legal forms for a RFC-822
-``From:`` header.
+A string containing the author's e-mail address.  It contains a name
+and e-mail address in the RFC 5322 recommended ``Address Specification``
+format.
 
 Example::
 
@@ -249,9 +249,8 @@
 Maintainer-email (optional)
 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::
 
-A string containing the maintainer's e-mail address.  It can contain
-a name and e-mail address in the legal forms for a RFC-822
-``From:`` header.
+A string containing the maintainer's e-mail address.  It has the same
+format as ``Author-email``.
 
 Note that this field is intended for use when a project is being
 maintained by someone other than the original author:  it should be
@@ -268,7 +267,7 @@
 Text indicating the license covering the distribution where the license
 is not a selection from the "License" Trove classifiers. See
 "Classifier" below.  This field may also be used to specify a
-particular version of a licencse which is named via the ``Classifier``
+particular version of a license which is named via the ``Classifier``
 field, or to indicate a variation or exception to such a license.
 
 Examples::
@@ -426,7 +425,7 @@
     Requires-External: libpng (>=1.5)
 
 
-Project-URL (multiple-use)
+Project-URL (multiple use)
 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::
 
 A string containing a browsable URL for the project and a label for it,
@@ -480,12 +479,12 @@
 not been declared with `Provides-Extra`.
 
 
-Extension (multiple-use)
+Extension (multiple use)
 ::::::::::::::::::::::::
 
 An ASCII string, not containing whitespace or the / character, that
 indicates the presence of extended metadata. Additional tags defined by
-an `Extension: Chili` should be of the form `Chili/Name`::
+an `Extension: Chili` must be of the form `Chili/Name`::
 
     Extension: Chili
     Chili/Type: Poblano

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