Bug#567845: debian-policy: broken formatting of upgrading-checklist.txt?

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 08:06:24PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.8.4.0
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi 
> 
> I noticed, with the current upload of the debian-policy the file
> /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz seems to have
> a broken 'formatting'. E.g. previously we had:
> 
>       * Added parallel=n to the standardized DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS tags,
>         indicating that a package should be built using up to n parallel
>         processes if the package supports it                      [4.9.1]
> 
> now we have
> 
> + *4.9.1*: Added parallel=n to the standardized DEB\_BUILD\_OPTIONS tags,
>   indicating that a package should be built using up to n parallel
>   processes if the package supports it 
> 
> It seems something broke on generation of that. The html variant seems
> ok.

Hello Salvatore,
I checked this file before uploading the package but I thought this was
the expected behavior of the formatter. In any case, I agree this is quite
ugly and I have converted the org file to debiandoc-sgml which generate
much nicer text files.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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