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

[Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:31:04PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> 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.

Even 80 characters are already too long for PostScript and PDF output.
The limit is 73 characters IIRC.

I completely agree that adding more linebreaks does not harm and is OK.

Jens