On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:25:32PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > BTW, even if my implementation works for libocamlbricks-ocaml-dev > [1] I'd regard this rather as a bug than a feature, becuase it just > should not work Agreed. > - it should be formatted as separate lists. When seeing cases like > this I teand to come back more and more to my initial suggestion: > Fix pure ASCII formatting first independently from the library which > might be used later. ... but non sequitur on this. Given that we agree that that example is just plainly broken no matter what, why do you consider it as a valid motivation for throwing all away? We cannot always enable a few packages (honestly assuming that such formatting is uncommon) to block distro-wide improvements. It seems that having markup-formattable, yet readable, long descriptions is just behind the corner ... just believe in it a few bits more :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
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