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"De-deb" some texts, such as Package descriptions #21

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pombredanne opened this issue Jun 17, 2021 · 0 comments
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"De-deb" some texts, such as Package descriptions #21

pombredanne opened this issue Jun 17, 2021 · 0 comments

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Debian uses space-prefixed continuation lines and "space-dot" continuation empty lines. We should have a function to strip these and optionally "re-deb" these
See for instance:

 GNU Bourne Again SHell
 Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes
 commands read from the standard input or from a file.  Bash also
 incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).
 .
 Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the
 IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).
 .
 The Programmable Completion Code, by Ian Macdonald, is now found in
 the bash-completion package.
pombredanne pushed a commit to pombredanne/debut that referenced this issue Sep 3, 2021
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