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Re: howto package description on multiple lines



On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:49:16PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> Hi
> 
> How does one make a package description where the line breaks at an
> intended way?
> 
> See bug 180727.

RTFM: http://www.de.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Description

especially:
The lines in the extended description can have these formats:
[...]
    * Those starting with two or more spaces. These will be displayed
    verbatim. If the display cannot be panned horizontally, the
    displaying program will linewrap them "hard" (i.e., without taking
    account of word breaks). If it can they will be allowed to trail
    off to the right. None, one or two initial spaces may be deleted,
    but the number of spaces deleted from each line will be the same
    (so that you can have indenting work correctly, for example).
[...]

hth,
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