Bug#683982: cupt: show should remove dots of blank lines when printing descriptions

2014-02-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Control: tags -1 + wontfix Hi, [ going through old bugs ] I've rethought this case once again and came to the conclusion that for the moment being I would rather not add the additional code for this. For many cases, I'd personally prefer current behavior, plus users can do something like $

Bug#683982: [Cupt-devel] Bug#683982: cupt: show should remove dots of blank lines when printing descriptions

2012-08-07 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2012/8/6 Eugene V. Lyubimkin jac...@debian.org: On 2012-08-06 00:44, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: I think that the dots should be removed. Hm, I am not sure about this. Dots are natural parts of the long description, and I'm not aware of any software doing this. Do you have any use

Bug#683982: [Cupt-devel] Bug#683982: Bug#683982: cupt: show should remove dots of blank lines when printing descriptions

2012-08-07 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hi Manuel, On 2012-08-07 15:21, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: aptitude show removes them. IMO, dots are an artifact to glue description paragraphs together, because of requirements of the syntax of the files. What would happen if it was decided to have 1-line descriptions, and

Bug#683982: [Cupt-devel] Bug#683982: cupt: show should remove dots of blank lines when printing descriptions

2012-08-06 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
severity 683982 wishlist quit Hi Manuel, On 2012-08-06 00:44, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: I think that the dots should be removed. Hm, I am not sure about this. Dots are natural parts of the long description, and I'm not aware of any software doing this. Do you have any use case why

Bug#683982: cupt: show should remove dots of blank lines when printing descriptions

2012-08-05 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Package: cupt Version: 2.5.8 Severity: minor Hi, I think that the dots should be removed. $ cupt show cupt | grep -A 8 ^Description 2/dev/null E: the release 'http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable' has expired