Erick Branderhorst writes ("Bug#1502: Uniform lists in debian.control"): > Package: ltxtool ltxgraph term ical mtools wu-ftpd > > All the above listed packages have a list of items in their description > in debian.control. In order to improve dselect and how it is presented > to the user it would be better to use a uniform way of listing these.
This is a good idea. However ... > A list like this (MODERATE?): > - Item 1 > - Item 2 ... whatever way we do it it is very important (a) that all lines of all descriptions are indented by one space, so that they don't look like new header fields (dpkg-deb will catch this mistake) and (b) that any lists like that that need to be formatted as-is rather than linewrapped be indented by at least one extra space. Ie, something like: Package: ltxgraph description: Color and graphics in LaTeX This is a pre-release of LaTeX packages for: * producing color * including graphics (eg PostScript) files * rotation and scaling of text in LaTeX documents. (this is an actual example from the current distribution). Ian.