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Please respect line length limitation in www.debian.org source



Hi all,

I recently added Michael Ablassmeier's German translation of
  www.debian.org/security/audit/faq
and noticed that files related to the Security Audit Project consist
of one long line of text ... 

... not really, but I found indeed lines with more than 300 characters.

Please avoid using such long lines. CVS which is used to manage *.wml
files is line oriented, similar to diff and patch. It's very hard to
find a difference in two very long lines which differ only in small
pieces. Even fancy utilities such as vimdiff, mgdiff, xdiff, tkdiff,
kompare, ... are not very useful in these cases!

I will try to fix this, but it is not easy since it may confuse
translators, who want to update outdated translations and have to
analyse these diffs.

PS: Maybe we should not give people write access without pointers to
style guides and www.debian.org/devel/website. I also suggest that
people send patches to this list before they get write access.

Jens



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