[Python-apps-team] Bug#805756: mercurial-git: double : in /usr/share/doc/mercurial-git/README.Debian

[Ben Finney]

On 22-Nov-2015, Vieno Foo wrote:
>    * What led up to the situation?
> less /usr/share/doc/mercurial-git/README.Debian
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> see a "::" at the end of line 4
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> see only one : at the lines end

That's not an error. The file is marked up as reStructuredText, and
the ‘::’ at end of a paragraph introduces a block of literal text.

I'm tempted to change this bug report to request the ‘README.Debian’
file state explicitly that it uses reST markup, perhaps via a reST
comment at the end.

Vieno Foo, do you think that would be a good resolution to this bug
report?

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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