Re: Homepage-field in description
Thijs Kinkhorst <kink@squirrelmail.org> writes:
> On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 14:25 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>> Hmm indeed, but to be honest I don't understand dit. I can't tell how
>> this extra space will aid in the breaking of lines? The only space in
>> that line will be right after "Homepage:" and I dare say that no
>> interface is going to have less than 10 characters width...
>> Can someone give an example where this will go wrong?
> I haven't seen any reply to this, and from a quick look over 1000
> packages are *not* using the space in front of the Homepage field. I've
> not seen any problem with those packages till now. I'm filing a bug
> against the developer's reference that this section be changed to not
> recommend the space in front.
The space is necessary; it tells package front-ends to not wrap the line.
See Policy 5.6.13.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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