Replying to self, so that people searching for this also find the solution. On 08/03/25 16:56 +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag said ... > I want to include a newline after the help text for each command line > option of ifplugd (actually ifplugd --help) in the template Description > for ifplugd/args. > > debconf-updatepo seems to concatenate these as one single paragraph, > which is not neat and hence #471178. I can do a --skip-pot and update > the po/templates.pot manually when I modify the templates (not very > often), that would solve the bug, but is this the best way to go about > it? I also don't know what the best way is to have a frontend display > newlines (not new-stanzas). Inserting an extra space at the beginning of a template text line will ensure that the resulting po/templates.pot file has a '\n' at the end of the previous line. Giridhar -- Y Giridhar Appaji Nag | http://www.appaji.net/
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