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

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Wed Dec 17 23:28:40 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:56:58PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Because people
> file bugs when
> word wrapping
> is not done
> correctly

Word wrapping is an separate issue.

> 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.

So add a new rpm header using semantic markup. You could even use an XML
markup if you wanted.




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