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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=b7d66bc4d3a1dfcc0666dfc19b19a6c6f850a5f0 commit b7d66bc4d3a1dfcc0666dfc19b19a6c6f850a5f0 Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Fri Jun 25 04:15:00 2021 +0200 doc: Update coding style to document POD instead of troff The man pages switched from troff to POD some time ago, update the style to match reality. --- doc/coding-style.txt | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/coding-style.txt b/doc/coding-style.txt index 689d6597f..dd0a41ccd 100644 --- a/doc/coding-style.txt +++ b/doc/coding-style.txt @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -Dpkg troff coding style 2016-01-29 -======================= +Dpkg POD coding style 2021-06-25 +===================== General ~~~~~~~ -Dashes that are relevant when copy & pasted need to be escaped (e.g. those -present in program, file, argument and field names). +Verbatim code sections that need to be formatted, need to be prefixed with +a line containing exactly «Z<>», to trick the parser. New sentences inside a paragraph should start on a new line, so that we do not need to reflow the text when adding new content. -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
