Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#840153: Should have various tutorial manpages"):
> control: tag -1 -patch
> ^ since no patch for the other manpages listed in the first message

Thanks, yes.

> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 08:38:48PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > As for your final patch "dgit-maint-merge(7): spacing".  Is there a
> > reason in a .pod file not to use semantic whitespace ?
> > perlpod(1) suggests not AFAICT.
> 
> My commit message was poor.  I should have written "split into two
> paragraphs".  Does that make sense of the change?

Oh.  Yes, well, somewhat.

> I don't understand how a paragraph split can have anything to do with
> semantic whitespace -- unless there is already a paragraph break without
> the blank line, and the commit has no effect on the manpage output?

All I saw in your commit message was the rewrapping.  But now I look
at it again there is an additional blank line too.

The rewrapping replaces the semantic newlines (which I used when I
rewrote that paragraph) with what looks like the result of an
automatic wordwrap algorithm.

I don't mind the additional paragraph break.  I do rather mind the
rewrapping (which is just pointless noise in the diff), but I will
tolerate it if you convince me you have understood what I mean by
"semantic newlines" and explain that you are doing this deliberately
:-).  After all I don't want to have a stupid argument about
whitespace.

Ian.

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