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



Hi Bill

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:50:03AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 03:40:30PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I created a git branch 'bug567845-ballombe' that change policy to use
> upgrading-checklist.sgml. Please comment.

Thank you. I will - if I can find some free time for it - have a look
at this new git branch. If it generates nicer text files it is great.
Do you have already somewhere the generated text file from it?

Bests
Salvatore

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