Bug#860023: libdebian-source-perl: Rejects valid field names based on letter case

[Ben Finney]

On 13-Apr-2017, Alex Muntada wrote:

> The patch provided below accepts any valid field ignoring case
> by using the canonical name instead, so VCS-Git, vCS-gIT, etc.
> will end up being Vcs-Git. Would that be compliant with Policy?

My Perl-fu is not up to the task of understanding the changes there.

Your description of the behaviour does conform with my reading of
Policy §5.1.

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Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org>
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