how to add newlines to bodhi update description?

[Richard Hughes]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Julian Sikorski wrote:
>> The description contains no newlines, and as a result is really hard to
>> read. Kernel and firefox updates, on the other hand, contain line breaks
>> and are all nice and clear. How do I add those newlines? I can't find it
>> documented anywhere...
>
> Not only is it not documented anywhere, the behavior differs from frontend
> to frontend. I've seen:
> * the Bodhi web interface,
> * the Bodhi mails,
> * the update notices sent to fedora-package-announce,
> * gnome-packagekit and
> * KPackageKit
> all using more or less subtly different interpretations of the newlines.

PackageKit applications should be using markdown syntax:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

I don't think KPackageKit formats the descriptions as markup yet,
although it's a planned feature.

Richard.