What I'm going to do: Was: RFC: Description text in packages

Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Thu Dec 18 00:40:06 UTC 2008


Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 09:00 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > I don't understand why you want to mess with it at all?  Why can't you
> > show exactly what's in bodhi, or exactly what's in the rpm headers?
> 
> Because people
> file bugs when
> word wrapping
> is not done
> correctly

Then
the
packa-
gers
should
fix
the
word-
wrap-
ping
bugs!

> People also don't use the UTF8 chars in update descriptions or spec file
> changelogs, and quite understandably, there's no bullet key on most
> keyboards. Using a * is so 1980's.

They do use UTF-8 characters just fine, thank you. Not all of them, perhaps
not even the ones you are most fond of. BZ away, sending appropiate patches.
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