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Re: [PATCH] Another patch to (maybe) fix a mistake in the Etch Release Notes



On Sunday 04 February 2007 14:37, Kobayashi Noritada wrote:
> However, Release Notes ofr etch split this message to two lines:
>   Unpacking replacement <var>&lt;package-foo&gt;</var> ...
>   dpkg: error processing <var>&lt;package-name-for-foo&gt;</var>
> (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite `<var>&lt;some-file-name&gt;</var>', 
>    which is also in package <var>&lt;package-bar&gt;</var>
>
> Maybe the last two lines should be joined.

The reason they are split is probably that I was afraid the line would get 
too long. The lines combined are ~80 characters and may get longer for 
translations. Having lines like these automatically wrapped in random 
places is not good for readability.

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