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Bug#457168: marked as done ([pts] long version strings are ugly and enlarge too much side columns)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #457168,
regarding [pts] long version strings are ugly and enlarge too much side columns
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Package: qa.debian.org
Severity: minor

In pages with long versions strings (see for example the attached one,
which is a dump of the current mdadm page [1]) the left and right side
column are ugly since they are too large; the problem being that
versions strings do not contain spaces and hence can't be break by the
browser.

A viable solution would be to recognize when the version strings are too
long (to be decided how ...) and, if so, add good break hints (using for
example the unicode character U+200B) to split lines there if needed.

A drawback of this would be that copy&paste of the version number will
begin to contain the unicode character used as hints. Mumble ...

Cheers.

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mdadm.html

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On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:35:53AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> In pages with long versions strings (see for example the attached one,
> which is a dump of the current mdadm page [1]) the left and right side
> column are ugly since they are too large; the problem being that
> versions strings do not contain spaces and hence can't be break by the
> browser.

Apparently, state of the art browsers are able to cope with that nicely
now, splitting at dashes and similar characters.

Besides, every other solutions adding special breakpoint character would
mess up with the real information, given that version numbers do not
actually contain that characters.

Closing this feature request of mine.

Cheers.

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Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7
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XML stuff is so ... simplistic  -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time

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