On Sun, Apr 26 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Well, it depends on the goal. Mine was on the line of what I perceived > it was "consensus" (totally subjective perception), that of trying to > use a standard language: either Markdown or RST. This is what I as trying to push towards, and I too thought we had a rough consensus on it. > My implementation is for the former, and I tried to avoid supporting > anything in addition. The only exception I made is to split in place > lists. > But if we have tons of '.' or 'o' lists, for sure we will need to > break that rule and support them. Do you have numbers about how many > such lists we have? If they are just a few they can easily be fixed, > if they are half the archive (which I doubt, having seen them rarely) > it would be a different story ... >>>> ,-- count-bullet-chars.sh -- >>>> #!/bin/sh >>>> lists=/var/lib/apt/lists/*_sid_main_*_Packages >>>> total=`grep "^ *[-+\*o] " $lists | wc -l` >>>> for tag in "\*" "-" "+" "o"; do >>>> items=`grep "^ *$tag " $lists | wc -l` >>>> percent=`echo "scale=4; $items / $total * 100" | bc` >>>> echo "Tag $tag was used $items times ($percent%)" >>>> done >>>> `-- >>>> Tag \* was used 9277 times (68.0900%) >>>> Tag - was used 3837 times (28.1600%) >>>> Tag + was used 120 times (.8800%) >>>> Tag o was used 390 times (2.8600%) > If nobody from -policy objects, I'll submit it tomorrow. Sounds good. manoj -- E = MC ** 2 +- 3db Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org