Re: More about lintian
Hi,
[I an not against using .. as an escape]
>>"Charles" == Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> writes:
Charles> Definately. In my package, gsn-curses, I copied the upstream
Charles> author's description of the game, which ends like this:
Charles> [...] two all get in your way; and somehow you keep being
Charles> reminded of your family through the ages, and all its
Charles> Curses...
Charles> ...could it be that even you are Cursed?
Charles> Now, how can I re-wrap that last short paragraph to prevent
Charles> the dots appearing at the start of a line? I can't.
You can't? There is nothing that states that your description
has to be a verbatim copy of the upstream author's. We are permitted
ingenuity and innovation ...
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two all get in your way; and somehow you keep being
reminded of your family through the ages, and all its
Curses...
.
Could it be that even you are Cursed?
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This by itself is not a good argument against policy. There
have been others, and I do think it is important we have an escape
mechanism.
manoj
preferring can do to no can do
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