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* Re: Perl modules
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@ 2014-05-11 19:16         ` Ludovic Courtès
  2014-08-11 16:37           ` bug#17468: " Ludovic Courtès
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2014-05-11 19:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andreas Enge; +Cc: guix-devel, bug-guix

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 01:31:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> But there’s no tool that really “interprets” of what’s in the
>> ‘description’ field[*].  What do you mean?
>> [*] Actually, ‘fill-paragraph’ from (guix ui), which is used for the
>>     output of ‘guix package --search’ does some very basic
>>     interpretation.
>
> Well, the output of "guix package --search" has different line breaks than
> those present in the string of the description field. So something modifies
> it,

Yes, that’s ‘fill-paragraph’.

> maybe the scheme interpreter itself in what it does with multi-line
> strings, maybe the function you mention. In any case, "x.\nY" may be
> output as "x. Y"; so if we wish to have double spaces in the output,
> we need to write "x.  Y" on the same line.

That’s really a bug in ‘fill-paragraph’.

I’m filing it now and will look at it later, unless someone beats me.
;-)

Ludo’.

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* bug#17468: Perl modules
  2014-05-11 19:16         ` Perl modules Ludovic Courtès
@ 2014-08-11 16:37           ` Ludovic Courtès
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2014-08-11 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andreas Enge; +Cc: guix-devel, 17468-done

Fixed in 3a09e1d, which will be in 0.8.

Ludo’.

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