Re: How to express bullet lists

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 09:17:44 +0000, Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:22:17AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > On the other hand
> >      http://packages.debian.org/sid/ht
> 
> > is perfectly formatted on the web pages.   It seems to be according
> > to the fact that parts of the description where a line starts with
> > two spaces are wrapped into <pre> tags in the HTML code.  This
> > could be used as workaround. 
> > (Did I missed some documentation of this behaviour?)
> 
> Yes.
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Description
> 
> The others are probably bugs then.  Do you have a list to name and
> shame?

There's additional information, including a proposal by Daniel Burrows and
a list of packages compiled by Tomas Pospisek at:

  <http://wiki.debian.org/Aptitude::Parse-Description-Bullets=true>

regards,
guillem