What I'm going to do: Was: RFC: Description text in packages

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Dec 17 22:12:50 UTC 2008


Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > This is a spec file description or an update description in bohdi.
> > 
> > The following things ‘were’ fixed:
> > • Fix ‘dave’
> > • Fubar update because of “security”
> > ---------------------------------------------
> 
> Dumb question. All the complaints I've seen that come in are
> about word-wrapping, but your main example is about character
> escaping/transliteration. Why not just do the word-wrapping, and
> leave it at that? (Note that PK at the moment wordwraps badly,
> which causes other issues.)

Alternatively, if we remove the requirement on the spec data
itself to be manually wrapped with newlines, this could (theoretically)
sort itself out fairly well.

Bill




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