[debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#510141: horizontal line in footnote #29

[Russ Allbery]

"Adam D. Barratt" <adam at adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 10:30 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Huh, there is indeed, but I'm not sure why.  Those pages are generated
>> from DebianDoc-SGML source and there isn't anything strange that I can see
>> about the SGML source:
> [...]
>> I assume it must be a bug in debiandoc-sgml, but it's a very strange one.
>> I'll file a bug against that package.

> fwiw, wrapping the paragraph in a section removes the line (although
> isn't an ideal solution).

Ah, yes, that's it.  I think it's the only place in Policy where there's a
footnote inside a <p> tag that's directly inside a <chapter> and not
contained in a <section>.  The <hr> is probably supposed to be the <hr>
between the chapter heading and the paragraph and got transplanted into
the footnotes, since other chapters with <p> tags directly inside the
<chapter> have a leading <hr> before that paragraph.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>