On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 14:25 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 13:09 +0100, Adam James wrote: > > A minor quibble with your post, the following is from the Debian > > Developer's Reference [0]: > > > > Note the spaces prepending the line, which serves to break the lines > > correctly. To see an example of how this displays, see > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/wml > > > > [0] > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-upstream-info > > Hmm indeed, but to be honest I don't understand dit. I can't tell how > this extra space will aid in the breaking of lines? The only space in > that line will be right after "Homepage:" and I dare say that no > interface is going to have less than 10 characters width... > > Can someone give an example where this will go wrong? I haven't seen any reply to this, and from a quick look over 1000 packages are *not* using the space in front of the Homepage field. I've not seen any problem with those packages till now. I'm filing a bug against the developer's reference that this section be changed to not recommend the space in front. Thijs
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