Hi, On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 07:06:31PM +0530, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Guido, > > > Please check the above report on how this can be achieved today. I > > prefer keeping the original git formatting by default. > > Adding #788496 to cc for this purpose, can you elaborate why? I'm not > sure I follow the rationale, especially when Lintian will merrily warn > about debian-changelog-line-too-long… :)
Proper line wrapping needs proper reformatting of the whole message. E.g. I want lists (starting with '-' or '*') to be preserved (so line wrapping also involves indenting the wrapped line correctly). If text is inside a paragraph the next line needs to be joined with the previous line, etc. etc. It's complicated to get this right so that everybody is happy. Text editors are far better at this. If somebody comes up with a clever formatter I might reconsider but just wrapping the line doesn't cut it in my opinion. Cheers, -- Guido > > > control: forcemerge 788496 -1 > > (Apologies for that; must have been failing at search!) > > > Best wishes, > > -- > ,''`. > : :' : Chris Lamb > `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk > `- >
