[Pardus-devel] Line break in description-tag of pspec.xml

[Ozan Çağlayan]

David Stegbauer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I also hoped there will be positive answer from packaging experts :-).
>
> Well ... as far as I know it is not possible.  Debian package
> descriptions are just text files and they are presented "as-is". OTOH
> You can format the text inside <Description> tag as you wish, but
> Package Manager ignores it.  Pardus pspec.xml is xml file and it
> ignores all formating. Special html-like formating tags are not
> implemented. It would require some work on pisi [1] itself.
>   

Yep. I'm not sure that we should support that kind of support because it
will need additional normalization against possible badly formatted
contents. XML is not about styling or formatting, it just represents data.

Regards,