Bug#789364: pmuninstall: package description with indented line that causes bad formatting

[gregor herrmann]

Control: tag -1 + pending

On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 13:00:54 +0200, Beatrice Torracca wrote:

> in the last change of the package description an indentation in one of
> the lines was added. The initial space causes the line to be treated as
> a "verbatim" line and non to be reflowed for different display
> width. For example it is displayed in a different font in
> the package page. The results can be seen here:
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/pmuninstall
> 
> I think that space should be removed so as to permit the text both to be
> treated all in the same way and to allow flowed-text formatting where
> available.

Nice catch, thanks.

Looking through the git history, this happened in an automatic change
to d/control done with cme. Seems like cme interpreted the leading *
as an item bullet and added the additional space.

Fixed in git, will be in the next release.


Cheers,
gregor

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