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Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.



Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

> (3) Uniform Layout

>     E.g.

>     -Copyright: 1993 John Doe
>     -          1993 Joe Average
>     +Copyright:
>     + 1993 John Doe
>     + 1993 Joe Average

>     Rationale: The whole document uses one-space indent for consequtive
>     lines.

No, this change is actually incorrect.  It should have at least two spaces
of indent for all the subsequent lines to preserve formatting if a
formatter uses the semantics of the control Description field.  (And I
prefer the current layout visually anyway.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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