Bug#967428: debian-policy: Abstract of Debian Manifesto (doc ID debian-manifesto) should not use verbatim
Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.3.0.3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
the abstract of the Debian Manifest (document ID debian-manifesto, installed as
file /usr/share/doc-base/debian-manifesto) is written in all verbatim format
(except for the initial line), which to me, judging from its content, appears
to have happened by mistake. I hence modestly suggest to change the
continuation lines its value consists of from verbatim into regular format, by
merely reducing the number of leading spaces from two to only a single one per
line.
For my amusement, I applied this change to my live system (with version 4.3.0.3
of debian-policy installed), deleted and rebuilt the online documentation
(install-docs invoked with the -R, and subsequently -I option), and got quite
satisfied with the result shown by dwww afterwards. The rest of this message
records the change I applied to file /usr/share/doc-base/debian-manifesto.
*** debian-manifesto.diff
5,8c5,8
< outlines his view for a brand new Linux distribution which would be
developed
< openly, describes why the world needed this distribution and which problems
< would the distribution solved. This document is provided in order to
document
< Debian's history.
---
> outlines his view for a brand new Linux distribution which would be
developed
> openly, describes why the world needed this distribution and which problems
> would the distribution solved. This document is provided in order to
document
> Debian's history.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
debian-policy depends on no packages.
Versions of packages debian-policy recommends:
ii libjs-sphinxdoc 1.8.4-1
Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
ii doc-base 0.10.8
-- no debconf information
5,8c5,8
< outlines his view for a brand new Linux distribution which would be developed
< openly, describes why the world needed this distribution and which problems
< would the distribution solved. This document is provided in order to document
< Debian's history.
---
> outlines his view for a brand new Linux distribution which would be developed
> openly, describes why the world needed this distribution and which problems
> would the distribution solved. This document is provided in order to document
> Debian's history.
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