[Cupt-devel] Bug#683982: Bug#683982: Bug#683982: cupt: "show" should remove dots of blank lines when printing descriptions

[Eugene V. Lyubimkin]

Hi Manuel,

On 2012-08-07 15:21, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> "aptitude show" removes them.
> 
> IMO, dots are an artifact to glue description paragraphs together,
> because of requirements of the syntax of the files.  What would happen
> if it was decided to have 1-line descriptions, and substitute new
> lines with the character "|"?  Descriptions wouldn't be very readable.
> 
> Of course, these dots don't have the same nasty effect on readability,
> but in my opinion they are not part of the description itself but of
> the formatting, and thus they should be removed in user-oriented
> operations.

Hm, yeah, that make some sense.

> Of course, all of this is pretty low priority, consider ignoring it if
> you don't think that it should be changed.

I think I can create a configuration option for that since I believe
there are use cases when it's important to output the description
unmodified. Indeed, not high priority, but the bug stays open so I
don't forget.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++ GNU/Linux userspace developer, Debian Developer