Re: RFC: Better formatting for long descriptions

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:

> (following up on IRC discussion)
> 
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> 
> >         I suggest, for readability, to use a subset of markdown; the
> >  link and image tags are not that human readable.
> 
> reStructuredText <URL:http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html> (reST)
> is, I argue, a superior choice to Markdown for our existing format.

Note that, like Manoj, I'm suggesting only a *subset*, not the full
specification.

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