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. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.